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...leaders from around the world descended on New York City this week for the U.N. General Assembly, traffic followed. Police closed off arteries throughout Manhattan's well-heeled East Side for security reasons, leaving taxis, delivery trucks and confused tourists stranded along Park Avenue. It's just another September in New York...
...Indeed, leadership on climate change may be shifting to the East. Hu emphasized that China's economic policies would continue to promote the country's rapid development, and it isn't clear just how ambitious China's emissions cuts will be. As Todd Stern, the U.S.'s top climate diplomat, told reporters on Tuesday: "It all depends on what the numbers will be." But from the outside, it looks like China is forging ahead while the U.S. remains mired in domestic politics. "The question is whether [China] will prompt Obama and the Senate into action before Copenhagen," says Annie Petsonk...
...students from all regions of Asia.” These recruiting trips have grown increasingly important as universities in Asia continue to draw more students from the region with scholarships and improving facilities. A report released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in July showed that East Asia and the Pacific have become home to more and more of the world’s university students over the past decades. In 1970, the region claimed 14 percent of students, while almost half of all students studied in the United States and Western Europe. In 2007, nearly...
...Steve is a fearless journalist,” stated James Hider, a Middle East correspondent for The New York Times, about his colleague at the newspaper, Stephen Farrell. A force of NATO commandos had just freed Farrell on September 9 after the Taliban kidnapped him and his translator in the Taliban-occupied Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan four days earlier. Yet four deaths in exchange for one reckless journalist’s story is an impossible transaction to defend. Journalists must exercise more caution in reporting from war-torn areas like Afghanistan. Their bravery can quickly turn into a vainglorious...
...Jamaica" grouping of CDU, FDP and the Greens, named after the colors of the Caribbean nation's flag. Both smaller parties have ruled these options out, but they may well change their minds after the elections. The dark-red color of Die Linke (the Left), an amalgamation of former East German communists and disgruntled SPD members, is not expected to feature in any potential lineup. (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...