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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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June 16, 2010
United States
More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby, director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of More Money than God, discusses his book and the role of he…
June 16, 2010
United States
"More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite"
Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge-fund moguls have become the stars of twenty-first-century capitalism. Their weekend mansions are fodder for Vanity Fair photographers; their pot…
October 15, 2007
United States
The Legacy of Sputnik
Watch Matthew Brzezinski, an author and former Wall Street Journal Moscow correspondent, and Roger D. Lanius, a space historian at the Smithsonian Institute, discuss the legacy of Sputnik fifty years…
November 30, 2012
Noncommunicable Diseases
Is there a Seat at the Table for the Food & Beverage Industry in the Global Fight against Obesity?
THOMAS BOLLYKY: Good afternoon, I am Tom Bollyky, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics and Development. This event is entitled, "Is There a Seat at the Table for the Food and Beverage Industry …
October 15, 2007
Technology and Innovation
The Legacy of Sputnik
The panelists will discuss the October 4, 1957 launching of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik, its impact on the Cold War, and its role in propelling the Information Age.