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...after Saddam and his chemical-tipped Scuds. Why does Bush dislike the ICC? Obviously, he does not want international bodies passing judgment on U.S. nationals involved in military actions not sanctified by U.N. resolutions. For the others, the object is precisely the opposite. They want to entangle Gulliver in myriad ropes, to keep him safely tied down. But great powers do not like international institutions they cannot dominate, where it is one nation, one vote. This is the crux of the matter, and it riles the European soul that the giant in their midst prefers to be the Lone Ranger...
...After 13 years of such violent tides, Kashmir's children are all over the map?some literally, others in the myriad ways they view their home and the possible futures it holds for them. Moulvi Imran Mushtaq decided to stay. He was ambitious, with dreams of becoming a doctor, and worked hard to win admission to Srinagar's Government Medical College. Violence, however, shut down his school for long periods; Moulvi's four and a half year curriculum took seven years to complete. "It was full of risk sending him to college," says his father Moulvi Mushtaq Ahmed. Avoiding...
...rest of America is anything like me, they're reading the newspapers and wondering what they missed. I spent much of the morning trying to extract some seed of outrage from the myriad breathless news reports detailing the fundraising potential of these photographs. After an hour or so, I gave...
...firms. Some of the hemisphere's most advanced research in pharmaceuticals, immunology, mammal cell genetics, plant molecular biology and even plant cloning and transgenic experimentation is conducted at the CIGB. The buildings are crammed with state-of-the-art equipment imported from Europe, Brazil and Japan. Visitors pass through myriad barriers that spray visitors, dressed in special suits, with a disinfectant mist. The CIGB, which has its own Intranet, does handle a considerable amount of work with the kinds of bacteria and virus agents that can be used to develop bio-weapons - but then, so do almost all vaccine-producing...
...gave Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney a grade of D-, gave Bill Clinton and Al Gore a C+ after their first year in office. "The President's environmental agenda is ambitious," says James Connaughton, chair of Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, which serves as a broker among myriad environmental agencies. "But it's also realistic. We focus on what's doable...