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...Beijing and Washington talking at the same table, this APEC summit would accomplish more than most. "Howard argues that his approach is the only way to bring major emitters - code for China and the U.S. - into an agreement, and that any agreement without them would be pointless," says Malcolm Cook, program director for Asia and the Pacific at Sydney's Lowy Institute for International Policy...
...which has suffered through years of extreme drought. The opposition Labor Party, which has pledged to sign the Kyoto Protocol, is leading in most opinion polls, and an election will occur before the end of the year. "Environmental issues have moved to the center of mainstream politics here," says Cook...
...court, deeming street food unsanitary and unsafe, ruled last May that vendors should cook food at home and sell it pre-packaged. Vendors and workers' rights groups, which had filed a bunch of petitions in the Supreme Court, led a chorus of protests. The Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, told an Indian newspaper that the judgement was not fair: "Wiping out the vendors will mean wiping out a whole culture; it's just not the solution...
...Others asked, how could poor food vendors cook at home when they live in cramped single-room quarters? "Delhi is a city of migrants," says Madhu Kishwar from Manushi Sangathan, a street vendors' collective. "Someone running a food stall probably lives in a miserable hovel where there's no space for cooking. And if you remove all the street food hawkers, who would feed the millions of brown collar workers, many of who were rural migrants and lived in similar hovels with no space or time for cooking? Certainly, nowhere else could they find full meals for as little...
Then the fair's reigning Pork Queen, Rita Cook, escorted the senators off to see Big Red, the fair's biggest boar. And while many jokes were made about pork barrel spending, Thompson was quick to stress that one of the central tenets of his campaign is a conservative push to cut spending - particularly from entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid which he called "gradually bankrupting future generations in this country." In his soapbox speech, he accused other G.O.P. candidates of ignoring the budget, "other than giving lip service to it," he said...