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...course that will halt the steady degradation of the earth's air, land and water and protect the multitudes of animals and plants threatened with extinction. The organizers of the meeting, officially called the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, intend to produce several landmark documents, including an Earth Charter (a set of principles designed to ensure environmental protection and responsible development), a program of action called Agenda 21 and treaties aimed at curbing climate change and limiting the loss of biodiversity...
...Signet Society was created in 1871 by a group of dissidents who decided to boycott the Hasty Pudding Club and the rival sophomore society, Pi Eta. Initially, the club's charter contained a "Pudding clause" prohibiting its members from belonging to the Hasty Pudding...
...says the only reason the club restricts membership to 225 people is that the club's charter requires...
With disarming naturalness, Ulvang seems to embody the Olympic Charter's principle of creating "a way of life based on the joy found in effort." He's a winner cut from fresh, unbleached cloth. Perhaps a champion whose training segues so perfectly into his recreation can only emerge in a sport that doesn't need jumps or rinks, just snow and distance...
...unwieldy bureaucracy. Among the first to go was Therese Sevigny, the Canadian who headed public information. But that leaves no top-ranking women at the New York City mother ship of the institution that purports to represent everyone on earth. Women at the U.N. are fuming. The U.N. charter clearly prohibits sex discrimination. Well, it sounds good...