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...question now is whether this process will continue in the future, as the world keeps warming. Scientists create climate models to try to predict how the earth will respond to higher levels of greenhouse-gas emissions, but only one model - created by the Hadley Centre in Britain - includes the possible impact of changing cloud behavior. And the bad news is that the Hadley model contains particularly high temperature increases for the 21st century, in part because it sees dissipating cloud cover as a positive-feedback cycle - meaning the warmer it gets, the less cloud cover there will be, which will...
...Patarkatsishvili to part with their interests in both companies at knockdown prices by warning them that the Kremlin would otherwise seize their assets and they would get nothing at all for them. Berezovsky had already been forced to surrender his media enterprises in Russia and fled the country for Britain in 2001. Berezovsky claims that Abramovich also promised to intercede on behalf of Nikolai Glushkov, a former associate of Berezovsky's who had been arrested on fraud charges and was seriously ill. (Read: "Boris Yeltsin: Not Your Average Statesman...
...owned was subsumed into the new entity. Berezovsky has supplied depositions to Cherney's team. Deripaska denies the allegations. His legal team argues that the case should be heard in Russia. Deripaska's attorney, Ali Malek, told the appeals court that the case had "absolutely nothing to do with [Britain...
...house in London, but Cherney is a resident in Israel, and the companies and events at issue are located in Russia, barring a disputed meeting in London at which an agreement may or may not have been reached. But the original decision to allow the case to proceed in Britain was made on the basis that Cherney's life and freedom could be at risk in Russia and he might not get a fair trial there. The ruling, effectively implying that the Russian court system could not be trusted, has done little to help thaw glacial diplomatic relations between Moscow...
...Northern Quarter's many bohemian cafés. For a moment's peace and quiet I'd head to St. Mary's, the "Hidden Gem" church, tel: (44-161) 834 3547, a beloved Manchester institution since 1794, before going over to the Manchester Velodrome to watch some of Britain's Olympic gold-medal cyclists train at the National Cycling Centre, tel: (44-161) 223 2244. Evening would find me at Bridgewater Hall, tel: (44-161) 907 9000, which has some of the U.K.'s best acoustics, watching a performance by the Hallé Orchestra, followed by a Sichuan feast...