Word: averting
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...impending catastrophe that has the potential to far exceed the scope of last week’s tsunami. Scientists are in almost complete agreement about these ramifications, although they may disagree about its causes. Fortunately, global warming, like hunger and poverty, is a crisis that we can help to avert. The United States and China let out the bulk of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. A government effort to reduce the release of pollutants domestically and to make a bilateral reduction treaty with China would go far to improve the global situation. Even if the current political climate...
...independents assembled under the discreet auspices of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani (who has also declared voting a religious duty for Iraq's Muslim faithful). While some leaders of that slate sought this week to assuage Sunni and U.S. fears over their ties to Iran - and their desire to avert a civil war and hold Iraq together strongly suggests they'll avoid mimicking Iran's theocracy and will reach out to the Sunnis - the fact remains that the dominant parties on the list are historically far closer to Iran than they are to Washington. That's why whether the election goes...
...Observers believe that far more troops are needed to avert a further tragedy than have so far been pledged. The African Union has been authorized to deploy 3,320 peacekeeping troops by February, but even that deployment is running behind schedule - less than a third of that number now patrol Darfur, an area the size of Texas - and the soldiers' rules of engagement may be too narrow to make their intervention meaningful. Privately, officers predict that the number of peacekeepers will grow significantly, possibly to as high as 20,000. International aid organizations also complain of a shortage of personnel...
...last week, U.S. officials were sounding as skeptical as ever. Speaking in Vienna, Stephen G. Rademaker, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for arms control, argued that Iran "is seriously embarked on an effort to develop nuclear weapons" and compared the country to North Korea. While a deal would avert a showdown between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Association at its meeting in Vienna later this month, Iran would still not have agreed to suspend enrichment indefinitely, which the U.S. insists it must do to avoid the case being referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible economic sanctions...
...civil administration. But in nogo zones like Fallujah, enlisting the help of rebels willing to part ways with al-Zarqawi may be the only way the U.S. can avoid bloody battles down the road. It's hardly the arrangement Washington had in mind. But if the U.S. hopes to avert disaster in Iraq, it's going to need all the friends it can get. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger and Mark Thompson/Washington