Word: cold
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...mostly from wealthy nations. The talks will build on the framework set by the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. This time around, the pieces are in place for a major confrontation between the U.S. and China. In the last century, the U.S. and the Soviet Union faced off in a Cold War that saw a massive buildup of nuclear weapons. Today, a new Cold War could develop - and it's all about warming...
...There are plenty of details to sort out. But working on details is a good problem to have. If both sides agree in principle, the serious negotiation can happen in Copenhagen and beyond. Without such a breakthrough, the new Cold War is sure to heat...
...East peace process, his Republican opponents and just about everything else under the sun (except for Whitewater and, for the most part, the Monica Lewinsky scandal), this book will be a boon to historians. The casual reader, however, might delight more in Branch's glimpses of an unguarded President: cold-stricken and hunched over a kitchen table in boxer shorts, or discussing Bosnian air strikes while simultaneously filling in one of his ever present crossword puzzles...
...taken from A Gate at the Stairs reveals a density of wry, pitilessly accurate observation unlike anything else in contemporary fiction: "The Mexican strawberries in the refrigerator had grown the wise and cheery beards of Santa Claus." Looking out through an icicle-hung window is like "living in the cold, dead mouth of a very mean snowman." Anybody else wanting to be the greatest writer of Moore's generation is now throwing his or her hat on the ground and stomping...
...after the Cold War, Brazil finally started tapping its vast potential, first under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1994-2002) and since then under Lula, a former São Paulo metal workers union leader. As he told TIME in an interview last year, Lula, who is also head of Brazil's leftist Workers Party, channeled his skills and philosophies as a labor negotiator into a hybrid development policy that's about "doing things right" instead of right-wing or left-wing. By eschewing the ideological polarization that has paralyzed Latin America for centuries, he's helped forge...