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...Governments pledged to halve the number of people (about 1.1 billion) lacking clean water and basic sanitation by 2015. Delegates also agreed that international trade deals will no longer be able to ignore environment treaties' development and ecology goals. And governments promised to take action to help the poor gain access to affordable energy, though they didn't agree on targets to boost the share of energy produced from renewable sources...
Adults are free agents. They can overeat and gain weight if they want to. But perhaps what is most disturbing about their overeating is that they are unwittingly, and in myriad ways, passing on that tendency to children. It's not just that children pick up their parents' bad habits. There is growing evidence that what you eat early in life can permanently boost your body's desire for food...
...have a spectrum of dietary choices. But to the degree that you reduce simple carbohydrates and fat, you will lose weight and gain health...
...race against time. Were Iraq to acquire a deliverable nuclear weapon, it would gain a measure of invulnerability. This is not because its nuclear arsenal could ever match America's but because the threat of just a few nuclear weapons, delivered by missile or terrorist to, say, New York City or San Francisco, would allow an aggressor to commit whatever depredations he fancied, calculating that America would be deterred from intervening with its otherwise overwhelming conventional power...
...have a long-held bond with a big gain. You suspect that rates are going to move up for a while and push bond prices down. Rather than sell your bond and pay tax, you can sell short the iShares Lehman 7-10 Year Treasury (ticker: IEF) to hedge against a rate decline without triggering a tax bill...