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"A growing number of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity in modern history. First the Swiss banks were accused of silently hoarding countless millions of dollars that belonged to Jews who had perished in Nazi extermination camps. Under pressure the banks agreed to pay up, handing more than one billion dollars to heirs of depositors and to humanitarian causes related to the Holocaust." "German corporations and banks that had profited from hundreds of thousands of slave and forced laborers then came under scrutiny. Germany established a Foundation with up to five billion dollars, for "Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future," to settle all claims." "Life insurance policies that were never redeemed because the policyholders and the beneficiaries had simply vanished also came under scrutiny. The response was the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, or ICHEIC as it is known, with the mission of soliciting claims from the public worldwide and paying them off. It ended its work in March 2007, and this is its story."--BOOK JACKET.

An argument for a major federal program to stimulate innovation in energy technology and a proposal for a policy approach to implement it. America is addicted to fossil fuels, and the environmental and geopolitical costs are mounting. A public-private program—at an expanded scale—to stimulate innovation in energy policy seems essential. In Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution , Charles Weiss and William Bonvillian make the case for just such a program. Their proposal backs measures to stimulate private investment in new technology, within a revamped energy innovation system. It would encourage a broad range of innovations that would give policymakers a variety of technological options over the long implementation period and at the huge scale required, faster than could be accomplished by market forces alone. Even if the nation can't make progress at this time on pricing carbon, a technology strategy remains critical and can go ahead now. Strong leadership and public support will be needed to resist the pressure of entrenched interests against putting new technology pathways into practice in the complex and established energy sector. This book has helped start the process.