Not one of them fails to consciously do good and all of them work as hard as the majority of Americans.

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In order to teach well, its essential to believe in yourself and your profession, and despite all the negativity, I for one do still believe that, as long as there are good, dedicated and motivated teachers, there will be a strength in the education system that no funding reduction can change.

BBC: The supply teacher

Perhaps most important, calibrated boldness implies not that one solution fits all, but that different countries should do different things, for the common good as well as their own.

ECONOMIST: The G20 and the world economy

All this good stuff, however, has little to do with the CBD, the 193 parties to which began one of their two-yearly meetings this week in Nagoya (America is not one of them, having not ratified the convention).

ECONOMIST: Convention on Biological Diversity