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...more immediate concern will be the negotiations in Copenhagen. Since Reid's comments, environmental groups have been getting calls from foreign embassies suddenly unsure of where the U.S. stands on a global deal. What they want to avoid is a replay of the negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol back in 1997 - the U.S., led by then Vice President Al Gore, agreed to long-term carbon-emission reductions, only to be repudiated later 95-0 by the U.S. Senate...
...stands, the chances of a new global deal being achieved in Copenhagen - one that would succeed the expiring Kyoto Protocol and include both the U.S. and major developing nations like China - are already looking dim. There are still major differences between the developed and developing nations over how the responsibility for cutting carbon should be divided - and how much the rich world should devote to poor countries that will need to adapt to climate change. "It's going to be a very difficult situation at Copenhagen," says Annie Petsonk, the international counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund...
...medical school. She vanished Sept. 8. Clark shares the apartment with his girlfriend, Jennifer Hromadka, whom he is engaged to marry in December 2011, according to the couple’s wedding Web site. “He seemed like a normal guy to me, no big deal,” said Ivan Hernandez, 22, who lives directly above Clark and would often see him sitting on a bench outside their apartment building and smoking. “I thought he was nice, actually.” Neither the couple nor Clark’s parents returned repeated telephone calls...
Specializing in finance, Stein worked most intensely on the financial stability plan, which he describes as “the effort to deal with the current problems of the banking and what some call the ‘shadow banking’ system...
...bestseller—and has another project for girls in the works. “It’s going to be the same kind of concept,” Redd said. “About what every girl goes through, and how to deal with it healthily so that we’re actually enhancing our lives instead of taking away from them.” Meghan Pasricha ’08, a 2007 pick, also works to solve social issues. “I like to focus on empowering people and giving them resources and skills, and training...