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...also argued that there was no point to the U.S. and other rich nations reducing their emissions unless China and India agreed to limits. Developing nations contribute a minority of emissions now, but in a few years they will become the biggest emitters and their actions will decide the fate of our planet. (Read: "A Wind Shift Coming in the Global-Warming Debate...
Chicago learns its Olympic fate on Oct. 2, when members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meet in Copenhagen to award the 2016 Games. Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are the other contenders, and boosters say the Second City has a fighting chance. First, it offers a compact proposal: about 90% of the athletes would compete within a 15-minute drive of the proposed Olympic Village site, not far from Chicago's downtown. Many events would take place in city parks, and most new facilities - including the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, scheduled for the South Side's Washington...
Pastor expects to take up a position at the Colegio de Mexico for the spring semester. Beyond that, his fate is linked with his nation’s. “I am—what is it you call it? A patriot...
...they struggle through a contentious intraparty fight over health care, Democrats are facing another internal battle set for the coming days, this time over a key national-security issue: the fate of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Since even before taking office, the Obama Administration has been trying to figure out how to close the notorious detention facility. In his first week on the job the President declared that Gitmo would be shut down by the end of the year. But fulfilling that promise has proved a major challenge, and Democrats on Capitol Hill are divided over whether...
...Even by the standards of the Israeli army, which makes every effort to retrieve its fallen comrades - dead or alive - from the battlefield, Shalit's fate has taken on extraordinary importance. Following his capture along the Israel-Gaza border in June 2006, Israel has launched three major incursions into Gaza, with one of the main goals being the rescue of Shalit. Instead, the offensives killed 18 Israelis and around 1,700 Palestinians - and Shalit remains in enemy hands. Hamas also has not allowed the Red Cross to visit Shalit in violation of the Geneva Conventions, and the last sign that...