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...come from journeys over 1,500 km, for which there's no real alternative (Moscow to Beijing by bus, anyone?). But if flying simply can't be avoided, its environmental impact needn't be a write-off. Consider seating arrangements. "The more people on a plane, the better," says Gehan Talwatte, managing director of London-based aviation consultancy Ascend. Legroom may be compromised during budget or charter flights, but squeezing more seats on board reduces each flier's share of an aircraft's fuel load and greenhouse-gas emissions. While a charter and a scheduled flight each burns around...
...panelists--Erik G. Yesson, lecturer of Government at Harvard, Kurt R. Dassel, lecturer of Government at Harvard and Jean-Rene Gehan, a fellow at the Center for International Affairs--focused the discussion on international security issues...
...promote international security is still relevant after the collapse of the Cold War," said Gehan, former deputy assistant secretary for political affairs for Intergovernmental Organizations...
...Gehan provided an insider's perspective on the U.N. and said the future of the organization is very uncertain...
Grabar said last month he attended the conference partly because he is an authority on Islamic architecture, and partly to discuss a proposal by the Aga Khan to restore some Egyptian monuments. During the conference, he met with worldwide authorities and with Gehan el-Sadat, Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat's wife, who chairs a committee on the protection of Islamic monuments in Egypt...