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...says, "but it is the rich countries' greenhouse-gas emissions that caused this problem in the first place." Britain is already subsidizing a substantial program in Bangladesh that will raise roads, wells and houses above the level of the last major flood. "Bangladesh is a showcase of what will happen under climate change," says Penny Davies, a diplomat at the British High Commission in Dhaka. "It amounts to a testing ground for what island states, including Britain, will need to do to protect ourselves in the years ahead...
...often does this occur? "My guess is that it's a rare event," says Vilain, "but it might happen more often than we think...
...addressing the same issues. That's really the key right now." That is Rice's diplo-speak for her hopes of guiding Israeli and Palestinian leaders along parallel tracks to see a common "political horizon," to use one of her favorite phrases. The problem is that direct talks cannot happen so long as Israel refuses to deal with the Hamas faction of the newly formed Palestinian unity, which still does not explicitly recognize Israel's right to exist...
...These kinds of gifts don’t happen unless there is a long history and friendship,” Kagan said in a phone interview yesterday...
...wouldn’t be too farfetched to imagine that if someone in a terrorist network were to be discovered giving information, well, that’s another beheading waiting to happen,” Koski, who directed the Federal Office for Human Resources Protections when it was created in 2000, said in a phone interview...