Synopsis: Concern over emissions and climate change has led over half of the states to enact "renewable portfolio standard" (RPS) legislation requiring regulated electric utilities to obtain some fraction of their power requirements from sources defined as "renewable." Legislation to institute a federal RPS may follow. In reality, RPS is a policy in search of a rationale, at odds with principles of efficient environmental regulation and poorly suited to promote other policies favored by its supporters. The actual record of state implementations has been largely symbolic. Very few states with binding RPS requirements are currently in compliance with their own programs, and a federal RPS will be subject to the same forces that have led to state-level failure. The recent history of renewab...
By Melanie Barker Correspondent
When she first encountered the "takings muddle" in 1984, she retreated to the apparent source of the confusion, Holmes and Brandeis' s opinions in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon41 only to move even further back to ideas about property in the early Republic.48 Like a good constitutional law scholar, she cites Madison and Jefferson, refers to "Antifederalists," and checks in with Tocqueville.49 But she embeds Madison within the classical utilitarian/economic vision of property - tellingly referring to his position as the "Lockean/Madisonian/Benthamite argument for acquisition" - while Jefferson is paired with Aristotelian ideas of civic virtue.50 In Carol's compelling view, the muddle in regulatory takings law reflects the persistence of dual - and at times dueling - conceptions of proper...
The House of Representatives that returns Tuesday is 10 percent leaner than a year prior - the result of a pair of mandates requiring largely symbolic cuts to the way it goes about its business enacted since John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, assumed the speaker's gavel in January. The cuts have resulted in raises for chiefs of staff, while the payroll for low-level aides was slashed. The largest savings, in mass mailings to constituents, may have come not from renewed financial prudence so much as technology.
Since the field is in its nascent stage, the editors Anthony Gritten and Elaine King hope to achieve two general objectives: 1 to explore the relations between from a variety of theoretical angles; and 2 to examine performers' gesture. "Subvocalization of instrumental melodies" -the feeling or the urge of singing along (p. 49)-indicates that we understand instrumental music in terms of vocal experience. In light of David McNeill's concept of "growth points," they posit an important claim that sound and body movements both originate from the same "inner motion.
For Eli Lilly, innovation is in the blood. In 2004 the Indianapolis firm, the 10th largest pharmaceutical company by US sales, decided to act on what is now a natural instinct among life science companies: posting clinical trial data on the Internet. Lilly would like to spark a similar trend with its CME registry, which appeared May 1 and opened the files on $11.8 million worth of grants given to 495 organizations during the first three months of the year. In CME, the drug industry has another opportunity to bolster its flagging trust levels. CME glasnost may not be a phenomenon yet, but at the very least, it's triggering some extended conversations in med-ed circles. To be sure, transparency has its pitfalls. There may be a potential for embarrassing disclosures when it's easier for re...
Nearly 40 years ago, sprinter [Tommie Smith] and San Jose State College teammate John Carlos stepped on the winner's podium at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and raised black-gloved fists in the air as the National Anthem played. Many Americans were shocked, angered, and outraged. While it was assumed that the gesture indicated affiliation with the Black Panthers, Smith insists that he was not a member of that group. Instead, he says that he and Carlos raised their fists on behalf of the Olympic Project for Human Rights. Today, Tommie Smith is admittedly very bitter. He's open about his disagreements with John Carlos. He complains that he didn't get the endorsements or money that today's athletes receive. He is lessthan-complimentary about almost everyone he knew in his early adult ye...
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