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...Perhaps most disturbing, the attacks revealed a lack of training, organization and equipment among the police. Bob Nicholls, a South African security consultant who was dining on the top floor of the Taj, decided to act as soon as he heard blasts because he figured there would be no hotel security or police at hand. He herded fellow guests into a secured room, but for two hours was unable to get any official information about what was happening. He and his team saved 150 people. An eyewitness who saw two gunmen walk toward Cama Hospital said that more than...
Somalia is yet another example of international failure. For the United States, the lack of interest in the country is further evidence that the Bush Administration's foreign policy is merely a quest for oil. Had the U.S. been serious about fighting terrorists and stabilising the world, Iraq would still be ruled by Saddam Hussein and Somalia would be a region under American control. Somalia is the place that supports terrorism and threatens world interests by hosting the pirates that launch attacks on one of the world's busiest trade routes. Those are real threats. That the international presence...
...meet new carbon caps and tropical nations start to turn their forests into cash. But doing a REDD project right isn't easy, points out Zoe Kant, TNC's carbon markets manager and the brains behind the Noel Kempff project: experts are few, locales are remote and most countries lack the technical capacity to run schemes on their own. Some places will be tempted to take shortcuts. "We have to make sure our standards are credible, and we're not just delivering money that ends up in the bank accounts of central governments," says nrdc's Schmidt. "We need...
...Back at HLS, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Cass Sunstein advocates a middle course. He argues that the real problem is not animals’ property status, but the lack of enforcement of current animal welfare statues by state prosecutors indifferent to institutionalized animal cruelty. He proposes allowing private citizens or advocacy groups to take suits on behalf of animals—a system that would both bring animal abusers to book and disincentivize abuses in the first place...
Eckert also cited the rise of makeshift markets in response to the lack of food...