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...notes that we have learned from history that the best of intentions can fail: “We have only to look to the past to prove this point—provided we look far enough back to see where our troubles began.” This is a central premise of the book, the idea that if we look back to the diplomatic arrangements initiated at Versailles in 1919, we will find the roots of the conflicts which torment the international community nearly a century later. Most importantly, Andelman contends that the Treaty’s oversight...
True to his word, Munk is cutting another swath, this time in real estate. With his TrizecHahn corporation, he is the second largest developer in the U.S. (with 32 shopping malls and 39 office properties in Manhattan, Atlanta, Denver and elsewhere), and he is expanding into Eastern and Central Europe, Asia and South America...
...what role would volcanoes have had to play in all this? A big one, argues Gerta Keller, a Princeton University paleontologist, who recently made her case at a meeting of the Geological Society of America. Geologists have known for centuries that a swath of central India was buried by a series of eruptions at around the time of the dinosaurs' demise. The remains of the flows, known as the Deccan Traps, still cover some 193,000 sq. mi. (500,000 sq km). The eruptions would have poured carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the air, triggering runaway global warming...
...global do-over. Most of the recommendations in a recent call to arms issued by the National Petroleum Council simply restate what we've known we should have been doing for almost 30 years--improve efficiency and conservation, develop clean and renewable sources of energy, make energy security a central element of national policy and global diplomacy...
...Defense Robert Gates said to reporters during a trip to China. Washington's Pakistan nightmare is that a weakened Musharraf may be ousted by extremist groups, leaving the country's nuclear arsenal in the hands of America-hating wackos. Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine general who headed the U.S. Central Command when Musharraf became army chief in 1998, points out that the U.S. ban on military exchanges with Pakistan during the 1990s--because of Islamabad's push for nuclear weapons--helped radicalize many in the officer corps. Musharraf flagged this as a potential problem in his first meeting with Zinni...