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...important figure in part because what he does is unique. While most glaciologists focus on polar regions, he has targeted the long-neglected ice fields of the tropics. "Lonnie went against the grain," says influential paleoclimatologist Wallace Broecker of Columbia University, and in so doing, Thompson has helped overturn the long-standing belief that the planet's so-called Torrid Zone is merely a passive responder to swings of climate, as opposed to an active participant...
...commercial whaling. Japan, which catches several hundred Minke whales annually for "scientific research," and Norway, which did not sign the 1986 moratorium, argued that populations of several species can now sustain controlled hunting, but they recognized that they could not win the necessary 75% of votes to overturn the ban. Proposals by Australia, New Zealand and Brazil to introduce two new whale sanctuaries in the South Pacific and South Atlantic also failed to achieve 75% support. THE NETHERLANDS General Surrender Croatian General Rahim Ademi voluntarily surrendered to the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague to answer charges of crimes...
...never that simple. She lost her seat two years later, although she regained it the following year. Some were not entirely impressed at her efforts to represent India?s poorest - a prominent human rights group slammed her for siding with carpet manufacturers in her constituency in a fight to overturn a ban on child labor...
...midweek, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic gave U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell the assurances the American was seeking. Djindjic kept his word, despite a decision by a court, packed with Milosevic supporters, to overturn the order that would send him into exile. Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic's successor as President of Yugoslavia, considered the handover "both illegal and unconstitutional," and the Prime Minister of the Yugoslav Federation, a comparatively powerless figure, resigned. But a majority of the ruling coalition supported sending Milosevic to the Hague, and Kostunica backed away from a threat to break up the government. Milosevic will face...
...lawns. Half a dozen town clerks quit rather than grant licenses to gay couples. Five state legislators who supported civil unions were defeated at the polls. But other civil-union proponents, such as Governor Howard Dean, survived, and the Take Back Vermont campaign eventually fizzled. Efforts by opponents to overturn the law have failed...