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The EPA has a chance to make air travel greener

  The Environmental Protection Agency’s intention to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from airplanes may sound like a small thing. U.S. aircraft are responsible for just 3 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, and 0.5 percent of total emissions worldwide. In the U.S., coal-fired power plants generate almost seven times as much carbon dioxide as planes. But air travel grows by 5 ...

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Youth unemployment poses big challenge

  Recession and slowdown in growth are set to drive the youth unemployment rate to a 20-year high with 71 million young people out of work. So, we may see a young population equal to an entire Thailand unemployed by the end of this year. The findings of International Labour Organisation (ILO) are unsettling because it is the labour market ...

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Clinton is making her trust problem worse

  Hillary Clinton enjoys about a five-point polling lead over Donald Trump. One way to look at this is that it’s a margin, at this stage of a presidential race, that is rarely reversed. Here’s another way. The Democrats had a successful convention, the Republicans didn’t. Clinton’s campaign has been smooth; Trump’s has careened between disasters. She has reached out ...

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