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...emotionally and physically. I am a good person, but there is no way for me to demonstrate this in a debate. How can I, as someone who is considered so removed from the institutions embodying the morality of many, even begin to explain how I fit into a moral framework which specifically precludes my presence...
...This year, we'll also hear Stargate's work with Five and new R. and B. group Blue. Hermansen promises "underground elements" that will give pop's familiar framework an extra edge. And if fans like the sound, expect a run on Norwegian maps as wannabes try to figure out just how to get to Trondheim...
...events that occurred that same autumn day, half a world away, at the Hague. Thousands of policymakers and scientists from all over the world had gathered, hoping to dot the i's, cross the zeds and umlaut the o's on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protocol was devised to curb the industrial emission of six gases, CO2 among them, that are slowly--actually quickly in geological terms--turning the earth into a hothouse. But no final accord was reached...
...course, translating scientific innovation into efficient production and distribution may indeed require a profit motive. But the scale of such profits, and the framework within which they're made, are worth discussing...
...czarist penal colony, then little more than a Soviet air base, Sakhalin is now home to the largest foreign investment projects in Russia. These deals, totaling some $26 billion, are long-term oil and gas Production Sharing Agreements--PSAs, in the argot of the oilmen--that offer the legal framework that Western companies require if they are to make major capital outlays in developing Russia's oil, gas and mineral deposits. The deals grant foreign companies export rights and tax breaks, while Russia gets a share of the petroleum flow...