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What does that exceptionally warm summer represent? Was it just a weird anomaly that briefly interrupted longer-term cooling? Or was the cooling trend itself a temporary glitch, as rising lake levels prior to the mid-1980s suggest? "At the moment," concedes Ohio State University geochemist Berry Lyons, "we don't even know if we're looking at changes that are just regional or if they are related to changes on a global scale...
...Woodrow. "All you're doing is addressing past promises." Much of the current furor over U.K. pensions grew out of a recently introduced accounting standard, FRS 17, which requires U.K. firms to disclose their pension-fund assets and liabilities. Some fund managers note that FRS 17 numbers differ from longer-term actuarial calculations, and complain that the annually reported standard is short-sighted; after all, should equity markets grow for a sustained period, the current shortfalls could be erased. In the Netherlands, corporate and industry occupational pension schemes have lost about 44% on their equity investments. But, says...
...agreement signed last week by the Kennedy School of Government and the Pakistan Embassy in Washington provides for both the short-term training of Pakistani officials and a longer-term commitment to the country...
...Iraq and march into Baghdad. "We've embarked on steps that help us prepare for a military option inside Iraq," says the State Department official, "but that don't constitute a crossing of the Rubicon. None of these steps are irreversible, and all of them could help promote the longer-term destabilization of Saddam's government...
...Longer-Term Plans...