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Patrick stressed that climate change requires a global response and suggested that the U.S. accept the Kyoto Protocol, which it has signed but not ratified. He also said that the Cape Wind project is a step in the right direction for renewable energy and stopping climate change. Patrick’s remarks drew loud applause from the crowd...
...moving the Iran nuclear issue back to the U.N. Security Council in exasperation over Tehran's tardy response to their incentives package, Iran could use the violence in Lebanon either to change the subject or, eventually, as an opportunity to demonstrate responsible behavior by quietly prevailing on Hizballah to accept some form of truce...
...disappointed by your article on Eton [June 26]. You stated that "the role of women is still peculiar" in the college. I call it outrageous! As you noted, Eton may be hiring more women teachers and naming its first female housemaster, but why doesn't the school accept female students? You reported on the financial-aid campaign that is supposed to integrate less privileged groups into the élite. But what about the biggest group of underprivileged people in Europe: women? I'm appalled by such gender discrimination in our supposedly progressive Europe of the 21st century! Maxi Schmeisser Bamberg...
...Armageddon. "At some point you'll find a burgeoning business of people melting them down to metal," says Kolbe, "and selling them back to the Mint for more pennies." Kolbe, who advocates rounding to the nearest nickel, argues that parking meters, Laundromats, transit systems and vending machines don't accept pennies. Merchants hate them and won't let you pay for things with a stack of them. They pile up or get thrown away to such an extent that the Mint made 8 billion new ones last year--far more than any other coin--at a cost of roughly...
ELECTED. Felipe Calder?n, 43, conservative, Harvard-educated lawyer and member of the ruling National Action Party, as President of Mexico; beating leftist rival Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador by less than one percentage point; in Mexico City. L?pez Obrador, the Mexico City Mayor, has refused to accept the results of the hotly contested poll and vowed to challenge the vote in court, a move that could plunge the nation into an electoral crisis similar to the disputed U.S. elections...