Author: Diana A. Drysdale
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: institutions, higher, education, affecting, violence, attacks, targeted, campus
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2010-10
ISBN-10: 143793448X
ISBN-13: 9781437934489

On April 16, 2007, Seung Hui Cho, 23, a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech") in Blacksburg, Virginia, carried out what would become one of the deadliest school shootings in the world. Around 7:15 a.m., Cho fatally shot a female student in her dormitory room in West Ambler Johnston Residential Hall and then shot the building's residential advisor. Approximately two-and-a-half hours later, Cho entered Norris Hall, a lecture building, and shot numerous students and faculty before killing himself. In total, Cho killed 32 (27 students and five faculty mem

Author: Gene Tidrick
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: evaluation, operations, study, assistance, bank, world, china
Number of Pages: 155
Published: 2005-04-01
ISBN-10: 0821359762
ISBN-13: 9780821359761

In the past quarter century, China has had one of the highest rates of sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in the world. But challenges of inequality and environmental degradation have emerged in the last decade or so, and the unfinished reform agenda poses fiscal, financial, and social risks. Because of its long-term involvement in China, the World Bank has had a substantial cumulative impact in many areas. This book evaluates the relevance and effectiveness of Bank assistance to China since the early 1990s. The author finds that the Bank has made important contributions to econo

Author: International Energy Agency
Publisher: Organization for Economic
Keywords: abatement, option, carbon, key, capture, storage, co2
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2008-10-31
ISBN-10: 9264041400
ISBN-13: 9789264041400

  Climate change is a major challenge. Secure, reliable and affordable energy supplies are needed for economic growth, but increases in the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are the cause of major concern.   About 69% of all CO2 emissions, and 60% of all greenhouse gas emissions, are energy-related. Recent IEA analysis in Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 (ETP) projects that the CO2 emissions attributable to the energy sector will increase by 130% by 2050 in the absence of new policies or supply constraints, largely as a result of increased fossil fuel usage. The 2007 In

Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: memos, murray, rothbard, fund, volker, confidential, private, strictly
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2010-08-10
ISBN-10: 1933550805
ISBN-13: 9781933550800

The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard The hugely influential memos by Murray Rothbard, written in the 1950s and early 1960s, were kept under wraps for fifty years. They were commissioned by the William Volker Fund and concerned most every important thinker and book of the period. Through them, Rothbard provided guidance for the publishing and philanthropic efforts of the Fund itself, which was the main flame for liberty in these dark times. Rothbard’s writing is deeply insightful, brazenly honest, and penetrating in every way, as he treats every subject from strategy to h