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...there lies the rub: The chance of either China and India - two countries that remain poor, despite the speed at which their economies are growing - accepting limits on their greenhouse gas emissions is virtually nil. In fact, Chinese officials recently reiterated their own stock position that global warming is chiefly the responsibility of the developed nations that have been burning carbon at industrial rates over a century during which China and India barely registered on the global economic scale. So, as long as the U.S. - by far the world's top carbon emitter by historical standards - insists that...
...into a haven that would attract companies even from other parts of Switzerland. Today the 97,800 residents of the Zug canton, many of whom work in the corporate offices here, enjoy an average annual income of $40,000. Among them are at least six billionaires. Unemployment is virtually nil...
...Sandinista revolution in the 1980s diversified the quotas of power in the country," said sociologist Cirilo Otero. "There was a displacement of the oligarchy; a lot of investment left the country, and what is left is the remnants of a class whose influence and power are almost nil...
...October 23, with the hope that a two-thirds quorum can finally be assembled by then to choose a successor to outgoing President Emile Lahoud. But his term runs out on November 24, and the chances of finding a compromise candidate, sources in Hizballah tell me, are nil...
...with the White House and start talking to Hamas on his own. But if the former British Prime Minister's lockstep support of Bush policy in Iraq is any guide - a loyalty that led to Blair's political downfall - Blair's moderating influence over the Americans is close to nil. "It's all just more of the same," said a British diplomat, muttering bitterly into his cups at a Jerusalem cocktail party last week. Welcome to the Middle East...