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...while the technological path to climate-change action is clear, the politics are getting even more complicated. As economic growth shifts to the developing world - especially in Asia - so will future carbon emissions. So whether the world can effectively combat climate change will be determined by countries like Indonesia and India - and especially China, which could pass the U.S. as the world's top carbon emitter any day. European nations have staked out bold positions on carbon cutting, and even in the U.S. momentum is gaining on real climate-change legislation. But if growing developing countries choose to ignore global...
...that George W. Bush has used his veto pen for only the second time in his presidency, rejecting a $124 billion military-spending bill that would have set a timetable to bring U.S. combat troops home, there is one group that is suddenly getting some attention again in Washington: congressional Republicans. That's because Democrats lack the two-thirds vote they need to override Bush's veto and realize that their only real option for forcing any concessions from the White House is to rewrite the measure in a way that draws significant G.O.P. support, even if it means losing...
...take for granted can be enormous problems in the absence of a little knowledge. Take cholera. My gastrointestinal colleagues tell me that although it will make you sick and miserable for a couple of weeks, cholera won't kill you if you simply drink enough water and salt to combat the dehydrating effects of its severe diarrhea. But millions have died from it just because they didn't know. Or how many horrible, slow deaths have there been from scurvy, which a bite of green pepper would have cured? How many poor kids in our parents' generations suffered years...
After 20 Cambridge Police officers appealed to the city council last night— saying that officers who also serve in military combat receive a smaller net paycheck than other city employees pulling double duty—the council passed a measure to give all enlisted employees their full city salary while in combat. Surrounded by supporters and colleagues in police uniform, Detectives Thomas Glynn and Brian Branley—each of whom served in the Massachusetts Army National Guard—said “other city employees have received full pay during their deployments?...
...hash out of last summer's war in Lebanon. When Hizballah kidnapped three Israeli solders last July, Olmert launched a massive military campaign whose stated goal was beyond reach: to end Hizballah's existence as a military threat. Instead, Israeli ground troops found themselves bogged down in deadly urban combat with Hizballah guerilla whose tenacity and tactics the Israelis were unprepared for. That, together with the barrage of rockets into northern Israel that continued until the cease-fire went into effect, allowed the Islamist group to claim it had won a "Divine Victory" against the Jewish state, to the applause...