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...assessment to be completed during Barack Obama's presidency. The assessment, which is required periodically by Congress, breaks down the predicted effects of global warming in the U.S. by region and sector; it contains no new research, but it paints a detailed and worrying picture of what a warmer America will be like 10, 50 and 100 years from today. "It is clear that climate change is happening now," says Jerry Melillo, a lead author of the report and an ecologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. "The observed climate changes we report are not opinions...
...rubbing shoulders in the shadow of the Urals. And the Iranian President, who never shies from making bold pronouncements, was not going to miss an opportunity to let loose his usual rhetorical flair. Soon after landing, Ahmadinejad launched a broadside at the fortunes of the West, especially America's, in the wake of the ravages of the global recession and the military quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It is absolutely obvious that the age of empires has ended," said Ahmadinejad, "and its revival will not take place." (See pictures from the tumultuous Iranian election...
...information considered potentially harmful to national security redacted. Sir Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and member of two key parliamentary committees, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and the Security and Intelligence Committee, suggests the inquiry can make sense of events only if it takes evidence in America. "One presumes this inquiry would want to talk to Rumsfeld and Cheney and George W. himself, although I doubt that they will make themselves available," says Campbell. (See pictures of U.S. troops' five years in Iraq...
...helping to establish the fledgling democracy that allows this diversity, he clammed up. "If I'm frank with you, I will be punished by my commander," he said. "If I answer from my heart, I will lose my job." A second policeman, listening to the conversation, had fewer reservations. "America and Britain didn't come here to help the Iraqis," he interjected. "Anything you did, you did for your own benefit." With cynicism about the motivations for the war widespread in Iraq and back in Britain, any inquiry, however flawed, is surely a welcome...
...America is enveloped in economic and political crises, and there is no hope for their resolution," he said through an interpreter. "Allies of the United States are not capable of easing these crises...