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How Republicans Made Climate Change America's Most Divisive Political Issue
2015-09-15 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: "Human kind ...cannot bear very much reality." --T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton It's been over a year since polling data found that climate change has emerged as America's most polarizing political issue. The survey, conducted by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, found that the divisiveness characterizing the climate debate is so strong it has eclipsed such longstanding hot-button issues as gun control, evolution, the death penalty and even abortion. And with President Obama recently...
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The divisive South African statue
2015-03-25 01:31:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Statue becomes symbolic target in South African university
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VIDEO: Indonesia's divisive new sea wall
2014-11-13 03:05:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A massive project to protect Indonesia's capital Jakarta from flooding is not being universally welcomed.
Obama steps into divisive debate on net neutrality
2014-11-11 19:28:48| Telecom - Topix.net
SAN FRANCISCO - Let's say President Barack Obama gets his way and high-speed Internet service providers are governed by the same U.S. regulations imposed on telephone companies 80 years ago. Depending on whom you listen to, the rules could unleash future innovation and create jobs - or stifle innovation and kill jobs.
Allocation of Nortel's $7.3B of assets still divisive issue
2014-09-25 22:18:24| Telecom - Topix.net
A months-long court battle over Nortel's remaining assets remains divisive, with judges in Canada and the United States given the task of navigating what has been described as a "tsunami" of legal arguments, dry facts and, occasionally, stormy lawyer summations. A lawyer for Nortel's Canadian pensioners and former employees said Wednesday in the final day of summations that it was wrong to suggest that his clients are asking for special treatment when it comes time to split up about $7.3 billion among various creditors of the collapsed technology company.
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