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Meeting for a second day in the Japanese resort town of Toyako, the leaders of the G-8 nations released a declaration on climate change, endorsing the idea of cutting global greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2050. It was the clearest signal yet of the international community's willingness...
Mugabe looms large in Africa not just because he is its most notorious current tyrant. The 84-year-old is also the last of Africa's great liberation leaders - a line that began with Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, the first sub-Saharan African to win independence for his nation in...
The same could be said of the $63 million push by the European Commission (E.C.) to develop so-called smart fabrics and interactive textiles. Though the technology was pioneered in the U.S., the Europeans have taken the reins in a bid to revitalize their traditional-textile industry, which has been...
Twain plainly thought war a foolish thing, and when, in Private History, he pulls his gun and kills a man riding through the woods, thinking him an enemy, we can feel for Twain and his young companions, standing there trembling in the darkness, wishing they could bring their victim back...
The challenge is a familiar one to universities throughout Europe. Low investment means institutions across the European Union pocket an average of $16,000 a year less per student than their U.S. rivals, according to a 2006 report by the European Commission. Lower revenues mean lower spending, and the result...