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League of Women Voters^®
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Date	Time	Place	Description
Wednesday, August 06, 2008	9 am to Noon	Hopkins Center Spaulding Auditorium Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755	A New Deal for Globalization. U.S. economic policy is becoming ever more protectionist, a direct reflection of the American public itself, in an attitude shift, the result of stagnant or falling incomes. Public support for engagement with the world economy is strongly linked to labor-market performance, and for most U.S. workers, that performance has been poor for many years. Less than four percent of workers were in educational groups that enjoyed increases in mean real money earnings from 2000 through 2006. How to arrest this protectionist drift? Implement a new deal for globalization. ILEAD: Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth
Wednesday, August 13, 2008	9 am to Noon	Hopkins Center Spaulding Auditorium Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755	Green is Green: How Cleaner Technology is Growing Business' Bottom Line. Environmental regulation, rapidly increasing fuel costs, and consensus among the general public are creating new growth opportunities for large companies to differentiate their products and grow global markets. General Electric Co. (GE) and its CEO Jeffrey Immelt are world leaders in developing these multi-billion dollar market opportunities and their many new technological prospects + in ways that provide huge profit opportunities, significantly increased, high-tech jobs and economic growth, improved U.S. competitiveness, AND significant environmental improvements. ILEAD: Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth
Wednesday, August 20, 2008	9 am to Noon	Hopkins Center Spaulding Auditorium Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755	A Stable and Progressive Middle East.More than a Dream?. Haviland Smith, retired CIA station chief, opines that it is just a dream if we continue present policies and activities in the region. Almost all Muslims are moderate, neither radical nor fundamentalist; do not wish us ill and are perfectly capable of living side by side, not only with a peaceful Israel, but with the United States and the West in general. Mr. Smith focuses on the consequences of our current Middle East policy; changes that might be made, and what such changes might accomplish. ILEAD: Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth
Monday, August 25, 2008	9 am	Room 215 Richard Black Recreation Center 48 Lebanon Street Hanover, NH 03755	LWV-UV Board Meeting. All members welcome
Wednesday, August 27, 2008	9 am to Noon	Hopkins Center Spaulding Auditorium Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755	The Climatic Disruption: Avoiding a Catastrophe. Climatic disruption is proceeding much more rapidly than anticipated, and its consequences are both manifold and severe. Warming feeds further warming. The only possible "adaptation" now is an actual cure: rapid stabilization of the atmosphere's composition, followed by an immediate reduction in the heat trapping gases therein. It's essential to achieve, in tandem, both a large reduction in the use of fossil fuels and effective global management and re-establishment of forests. If accomplished, it could result in a new world we might proudly leave to our progeny. ILEAD: Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth

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