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...local weatherman cannot say that any given storm or heat wave is caused by climate change. Rather, climate change affects the average. The United Nations?? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, “Warming of the climate system is now unequivocal…The global average net affect of human activities…has been one of warming.” As a result of this warming, “widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and aspects of extreme weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones...
...Bollinger’s questions—revealing to everyone what a fool he truly is.It is a great shame that Ahmadinejad chose the latter. He gave ludicrous and non-committal answers such as “we [Iran] are a peace-loving nation…we love all nations?? and “we are friends with the Jewish people.” Some of Ahmadinejad’s answers were simply inaccurate (“Jews, Christians and Muslims…don’t have any serious problems”), while other comments confirmed Bollinger?...
...comprehensive index of African nations??which measures countries’ security, rule of law, economic development, and other areas—placed Senegal in the top ten, according to one of the report’s researchers, Robert I. Rotberg, an adjunct professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
...According to Gong, the stolen flags were hung over the fourth window on the wall opposite the kitchen area, and over the first door on the left side leading to the kitchen area. None of the five flags—which also represented Israel, South Africa, and the United Nations??used at the event were hard to miss, measuring at least six feet long by 10 feet wide. Two policemen from the Harvard University Police Department provided security for the event, but did not report any unusual activity to Woodbridge members, Gong said. Woodbridge Society members said they...
...than talking. Neither the U.S. nor the E.U. are willing to forcefully intervene for humanitarian reasons, and rising powers like China have undermined multilateral economic pressure by signing trade treaties with the Khartoum regime that sponsors the Janjaweed paramilitaries. And as usual, with no willing hard power around, United Nations?? resolutions seem at best inconsequential...