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...jatropha trees to Caribbean countries in the hope that they won't have to choose between producing enough fuel and producing enough food. "We want to make money with jatropha, but we also want to make a difference," Paul Dalton says. If jatropha can do both, it's an idea that could grow like weeds...
...Congo is the place to go. MONUC--the French acronym for the U.N. peacekeeping force of blue helmets and white vehicles in Congo--is the force tasked with getting R2P up and running. MONUC began work in 1999, years before R2P came into effect. But as the U.N.'s idea of peacekeeping evolved from deterrence and cease-fire-monitoring to peace-enforcing, so MONUC grew. It has the most aggressive peacekeeping mandate in U.N. history, one that includes "forcibly implementing" cease-fires and "using all means deemed necessary" to protect civilians and improve security. It is also supported...
...media self-justification-and-jury-pool-influence tour at the same time that American Idol has returned to TV. Like the bad auditioners who spring anew from city and heartland every winter, Blago inspires the same questions every time he opens his mouth: Does he really have no idea how he sounds to other people? It's gotta be an act, right...
...Nestling among largely uncontroversial proposals - for an annual Day of Reflection, for example - was at least one idea that united old enemies, if only in outrage. A so-called "recognition payment" would see a sum of ?12,000 given to all households who lost family members to the Troubles, whether the victim was civilian or military, Catholic or Protestant, the target of an explosion - or the person who died setting the bomb. "We are still fighting about who was right or righter, who had moral justification, and who had God on their side. And we are still terrified that...
...There's little enthusiasm for the CGP proposals among the political classes. Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland's First Minister and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, called the idea of the recognition payment "offensive." Nationalists and Republicans raised concerns that some recommendations could block future investigations into killings that may have involved collusion between security forces and paramilitaries. Such opinions will be registered, but may not prove decisive. Northern Ireland has come a long way, but ten years after devolution, the final judgment on the proposals lies with Westminster and Dublin...