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...only Belgrade's peace offensive that challenges NATO's control over events in Kosovo. The peace framework agreed to last Thursday by NATO and Russia makes the U.N. Security Council the central vehicle for peace in Kosovo, requiring its endorsement of an international peace force. But both Russia and China have veto power in the council, which makes it unlikely that NATO will have everything its own way in a peace deal. "Washington's ability to control the situation is waning as pressure mounts for a deal," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even among countries that have supported NATO...
...blows there from the land. No. It's the waves... Piaget recognized that five-year-old Julia's beliefs, while not correct by any adult criterion, are not "incorrect" either. They are entirely sensible and coherent within the framework of the child's way of knowing. Classifying them as "true" or "false" misses the point and shows a lack of respect for the child. What Piaget was after was a theory that could find in the wind dialogue coherence, ingenuity and the practice of a kind of explanatory principle (in this case by referring to body actions) that stands young...
...post-Cold War world there is "no longera strict framework in which situations ofpotential calamity can be worked out," he said...
...disagree. One way of placing environmentalism within a moral framework is to think in terms of environmental justice. This rapidly emerging field considers who are the winners and the losers of environmental change and whether that status is deserved. An illustrative example is again the topic of climate change, which is caused primarily by the increase in the content of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. An important effect of global warming is the rise of global sea levels, which is a prospect that severely threatens many small island nations and peninsulas. Bangladesh is a country whose...
...born. Someone dies. Our lives are filled with these moments of change, when we are suddenly forced to live our lives from a new perspective. We find ourselves in a new world. "Songs for a New World" is a musical revue, a song cycle about these moments. With a framework that ranges from a historic Spanish sailing ship in 1492 to the mythical north pole to the very real inner city of today, this fresh new pop-influenced score will excite audiences in the show's New England premiere. Adams House Pool Theatre. 13 Bow St. $7, $5 students...