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...Graham first hinted at a 90-day clock in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee September 19. In his comments before that panel, he merely predicted the world would see progress by Baghdad in the next 90 days...
...recently attended a panel discussion about luxury in the year 2012. Naturally, talk turned to brands and the need for increasingly unique products and experiences. One panelist dismissed the idea of luxury altogether, arguing that it had become too accessible. Another defined the future of luxury as one-of-a-kind experiences, like a group of hedge-fund managers who recently paid top dollar to be dropped into the middle of the Amazon. Uniqueness is something, along with quality, that luxury consumers desire universally?who doesn't covet that one-of-a-kind object, whether it be an Herm?...
Scientists on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned this week that the effects of global warming are already being felt in Africa. The IPCC's most recent report on Africa predicted a minimum 2.5 degree centigrade increase in the continent's temperature by 2030. Growing seasons will be cut short and stretches of land made unsuitable for agriculture, with yields declining by as much as 50% in some countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, between 25% and 40% of animals in national parks may become endangered. Africa's major bodies of water, including the Nile, will suffer excessive...
Summers will serve on the panel alongside Rajat Gupta, chairman of the board of the India School of Business; Amina J. Ibrahim, senior special assistant to the president of Nigeria; Kavita N. Ramdas, president of the Global Fund for Women; Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico; and Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia...
...members of the foundation’s third panel, on global health, will be announced in the coming month...