Climate change can be addressed without recourse to generating power from fusion since there are already many alternatives to fossil-fuel power plants.

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Television pictures from north Africa have reminded many that there are alternatives to accepting one's fate.

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Some of those non-performing loans will be directed into one of the many foreclosure alternatives now available to lenders: from loan modification to short sale to even sale of the loan at a discount to another entity who then can try to get that loan performing again.

FORBES: Have All the Bad Loans Already Been Foreclosed?

Data and rational analysis offer the hope that we can be less subjective in our consideration of alternatives and potential courses of action, thereby freeing us from the many biases we bring to the table.

FORBES: Meeting the Big Data challenge: DON'T be objective