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...revolves around two questions: How quickly will this warming take place, and what will the effects of this warming be? Both are valid scientific questions and currently the subjects of additional research, but they are not reasons for delaying action to slow global warming. Moreover, the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the United States and 185 other nations ratified, is designed to allow countries to weaken or strengthen the treaty in response to new scientific developments...
...Until a new peace framework emerges, however, the impasse in negotiations leaves the Palestinian demand for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the Israeli demand for security, to be pursued over the barrel of a gun rather than over a shiny table. Although the Palestinians lack the military means to expel the Israelis from the occupied territories, they are able to sustain a low-level war of attrition in the hope that the human cost of maintaining military outposts and civilian settlements in Palestinian areas eventually outweighs any benefit for Israel...
...acknowledged that the Oslo process is essentially dead. Indeed, the White House's rhetorical switch last week from referring to reviving "the peace process" to talking of restoring "a political process" between Israelis and Palestinians appears to confirm that while negotiations ultimately remain inevitable, they may occur within a framework quite different from the one President Clinton has overseen throughout his tenure...
...Advising is best when it springs from some natural intellectual relationship between advisor and student, and tutorials form the most natural framework," writes Lewis in an e-mail message. "Faculty who lead tutorials serve as advisers to their students, whether they bear such a formal title or not, so strengthened tutorial programs result in improved advising as well...
...three groups have struggled, internally, and with one another, to clarify their stances and create a framework in which they can work together...