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...starters, the Kyoto protocol on global warming is awaiting ratification. Browner made an astute observation that one of the main difficulties experienced by the Clinton administration in ratifying the Kyoto protocol is the inadequate coverage of interests represented by developing countries. If China, India, Brazil and most of Africa still consider national action plans for mitigating global warming as an unaffordable luxury in the context of a lopsided global trade and development establishment, then substantial environmental peddling remains to be done by the U.S. Unfortunately, the U.S.-sponsored Country Studies Program, the highly successful multi-agency program dedicated to assist...
...Instinct and, even worse, impulse have almost no room in his world. That doesn't mean Gore has no principles, only that he won't get into a fight until he thinks he can support those principles with every conceivable footnote. Some of his most conspicuous positions--pushing the Kyoto treaty on global warming, despite near unanimous Senate opposition, or calling for intervention in Bosnia long before it was popular, or expressing the conviction that gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military--can be perceived as reflections of his value system, but in each case he also...
...Kyoto treaty commits the U.S. and other industrialized nations to cut their output of carbon-based gases - which governments blame, in part, for global warming - back to their 1990 levels by the year 2012. Right now, though, U.S. output levels are still increasing annually, and cutting them will require some painful sacrifices in the world's most evolved car culture. Short of banning gas-guzzling SUVs and risking a revolution, adding tax remains, as Europeans have found, the most effective way to curb consumption. After all, even at $2 a gallon, gas is still a bargain compared with the inflation...
Math-phobics of the world take heart - if a monkey can do it, anybody can. Researchers at Kyoto University have taught a female chimp named Ai to count and manipulate numbers. In an article published in a forthcoming edition of Nature, researchers report that Ai was usually able to memorize and repeat sequences when flashed with any five numbers between 1 and 9 in random order - putting her at least on par with the average preschooler. Adult humans, in contrast, usually have a difficult time remembering more than seven random numbers (hence the length of phone numbers). Animals have long...