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Most of the world has paid little attention to the war, and Liberia's neighbors are only belatedly showing concern. When the Economic Community of West African States, a 16-nation body formed 15 years ago to promote regional cooperation, held an emergency summit in early August, only seven members bothered to attend. Determined to solve their problems without the help of uninterested superpowers, they hastily decided that ECOWAS should go into the peacekeeping business. To achieve a cease-fire in Liberia and supervise free elections, they created a West African force, the Economic Community Monitoring Group. Yet when...
...human sickness and death. But what form they will take is difficult to say. We can be pretty sure that as average temperatures climb, there will be more frequent and longer heat waves of the sort that contributed to the death of at least 20,000 Europeans in August 2003. Other predictions are more tenuous. For example, rising temperatures could--if rainfall and other conditions are right--result in larger mosquito populations at higher elevations in the tropics, which could in turn contribute to the spread of malaria, dengue and other insect-borne infections. Early indications are not encouraging...
...first new Cardinal to get his hat, former San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada, was Benedict?s biggest surprise. Levada was named last August to take the Pope?s old job as the Church?s point man on all doctrinal issues as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a post that Cardinal Ratzinger held under John Paul for 24 years. When Benedict gave the job to Levada, a friend since the two worked together in Rome in the early 1980s, most Vatican insiders were shocked, having expected a European intellectual heavyweight in the post. Message: Benedict...
...efforts toward meeting their stated goals,” she said. But most students who spoke sought to communicate to the commission the need for larger grants and cheaper loans, citing their own educational debt. The commission of university leaders, CEOs, policymakers, and researchers will release a report in August with their recommendations. —Staff writer Lois Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu
...reality show Election. Seasoned political strategists - and spouses - James Carville, 61, who helped orchestrate Bill Clinton's winning campaign in 1992, and Mary Matalin, 52, a longtime adviser to Dick Cheney, have signed on to counsel the candidates for school president. They talked with TIME's Melissa August about their show, and other matters...