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...decided to abandon the 1997 Kyoto treaty to combat climate change--an agreement the U.S. signed but the new President believes is fatally flawed. His dismissal last week of almost nine years of international negotiations sparked protests around the world and a face-to-face disagreement with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. Our special report examines the signs of global warming that are already apparent, the possible consequences for our future, what we can do about the threat and why we have failed to take action...
Bush got another earful from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder at the White House last Thursday. But the President stood firm. "Our economy has slowed down," he said. "We also have an energy crisis, and the idea of placing caps on CO2 does not make economic sense...
...what Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists called "the most anti-environmental act by an American President in modern history." By the time they arrive, the Bush Administration will at least have had plenty of practice -if scant success -in explaining its position. Last week German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who governs in a coalition with the environmentalist Greens, was there to air his differences on global warming and other issues in his first meeting with Bush. And Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, who as chairman of the Kyoto process presided over the unsuccessful Hague conference last...
...challenged readers to "sign up for the most important job in New York City." Fogel was among the job switchers who answered similar ads last year. In August he and 349 other recruits attended a pep-rally orientation for New York Fellows, an accelerated-certification program started by schools chancellor Harold Levy. "Urban education," Levy told the group, "has the same moral force as the civil rights movement." After four weeks of all-day classes on teaching methods and lesson plans, the 323 who stuck with the training, and who passed two required state exams, were face to face with...
...know to what extent they harbor any real illusions. There's a feeling that they need to be seen to be doing something. But [German chancellor Gerhard] Schroeder had no impact when he met with Bush on Thursday, and there's no reason to believe the E.U. delegation will fare any better. They'll make their representations to whomever they get to see - it'll be interesting to see how many deputy assistant secretaries of state they get to meet. But besides reiterating Europe's concern, they're unlikely to have any new arguments. There have been some veiled suggestions...