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...Thanks to this year's chemistry Nobel laureates, that's a lot easier than it used to be. In the late 1980s, John Fenn, 85, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Koichi Tanaka, 43, of Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto, Japan, independently invented techniques that extended a common analytical tool called mass spectrometry - that is, sorting by mass - to much bigger and more complex molecules than had ever been possible. Among many other things, their work has led to new diagnostic tests for ovarian, breast and prostate cancers and for malaria, and earned the pair half of the approximately $1million prize...
...approach with the useful propaganda addition of Tony Blair. I stress Tony Blair as opposed to the United Kingdom, because, currently, he does not have either his party or his people on board. Europeans have not been encouraged by the present American administration’s retreat from the Kyoto agreement, from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and from open trade. Indeed, the United States is seen as isolationist as well as unilateralist...
...being on the line were clearly aimed at shaming the international body into enforcing its own writ. But that goal may be beyond the reach of an administration openly disdainful of international consensus on so many other issues. The administration's stance on issues ranging from the Kyoto protocol to the International Criminal Court have led even NATO allies to view the Bush Administration as a delinquent global citizen, and pro-Western Arab governments make the argument that when the unconventionally-armed country defying U.N. resolutions is Israel, the U.S. responds with a nod and a wink...
SOUTH AFRICA Baby Steps Toward Tomorrow The earth summit in Johannesburg ended on an unexpected upbeat note for the Green lobby. Russia and Canada announced they will seek to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Their decision means the treaty, including its system of trading rights to emit carbon, should now be able to take effect. Other achievements of the summit included an agreement on water and sanitation. Governments pledged to halve the number of people (about 1.1 billion) lacking clean water and basic sanitation by 2015. Delegates also agreed that international trade deals will no longer be able...
...putting all the politically charged questions of poverty and pollution on the agenda of a two-week talk-shop, the Summit inevitably did more to highlight global schisms than to resolve them. There was the traditional "North-South" divide between rich nations and poor nations; the Kyoto signatories (Europeans and the developing world) against the Kyoto skeptics (the Americans and a handful of oil-dependent and -producing nations); and the U.S. vs. the Rest of the World (a schism exacerbated by the Bush administration's unapologetic unilateralism on environmental and other global affairs, underscored by the President's absence from...