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...line of handbags and totes. Together with a small team of artisan workers in Vaulx-en-Velin near Lyons, they scissor out the best graphics to produce one-of-a-kind carry-alls. But more than just an original fashion accessory, Imberton sees them as a "modest" initiative to develop an environmentally responsible solution. Only a tiny fraction of billboards in France are recycled. Removed from their supports, some end up on farms, tossed over woodpiles or machinery. Others are burned, which, if not done properly, releases dioxins into...
...avian flu were to develop into a pandemic as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu, it would cause about 62 million deaths worldwide, 96 percent of them in the developing world, according to a Dec. 21 report by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Queensland in Australia...
Foreign Relations Committee chair Joseph Biden is set to start hearings on the Iraq war, taking testimony from academics and other witnesses to develop a new bipartisan strategy...
...guide, Fanah, is program director for a Western-funded non-profit called the Center for Peace and Democracy, which aims to "promote peace, democracy and support the community in decision-making and to develop a strategy to overcome the current awful situation in Somalia." He admits the organization's success has been limited. "Somali is a poor language," he smiles apologetically. "There is no Somalian word for democracy...
...Even before coup leader Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin called peace in the region "a top priority", hopes were high that some sort of truce could be reached. In December 2005, representatives from five Muslim insurgent groups met secretly with senior Thai military and intelligence officers in Langkawi, Malaysia to develop a peace plan for the South-a conference mediated by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. But now, a top member of Mahathir's mediating team tells TIME that the dialogue between the government and the rebels is at a dead end. And although Interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has made...