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...actually a treaty: 141 countries have ratified it, legally binding themselves to reduce their emissions of six greenhouse gases by 2012. From the start, there were doubts about the effectiveness of the plan. Developing countries that signed on, such as China and India, were let off the hook so economic progress wouldn't be impeded. Australia and the U.S. signed the protocol in 1997, but ultimately chose not to ratify the treaty, saying their economies would suffer...
...person, 66-year-old Stuttgen, a former Berliner, looks more like the Catholic missionary he aspired to be when he arrived in the country in the 1960s. But the interior of his wooden cottage, perched on the rainforest-covered heights above Wewak, confirms his fascination with tribal objects. Eerie hook-nosed masks and giant carvings cover the walls. Twenty years a dealer, Stuttgen defends the sale of skulls, saying, "It is a victimless crime. I was just trying to help the (local) people. They brought them here. I just helped them mail them," he says. The skulls were not genuine...
...done. He has about 10 films he has started working on, patiently waiting for them to get traction with studios, investors or actors. There's an adaptation of the nonfiction book Fast Food Nation, an Owen Wilson and Natalie Portman movie called The Smoker (about parents who try to hook their daughter up with her high school teacher) and a football movie he started shooting but lost financing...
...infringers, with the number of suits filed now headed into the tens of thousands,” he says. “The copyright holders also made clear that just switching to a new network, like [Internet2], isn’t going to get you off the hook...
...says. Ms. Cowman speaks from experience: after two years of dating Michael Schetter, a 22-year-old naval officer, she can identify exactly what she sees as the problems with finding love at Harvard. “My relationship was never in this weird limbo of hook-ups,” she says. “I hate the Harvard male’s arrogant attitude of ‘You’re so lucky to have me.’ I’ve seen gorgeous girls get treated badly...