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...with the big deadline another year off and the U.S. in the midst of a leadership vacuum on climate change (see below), progress out of Poznan will likely be slow and more about process than measurable targets. "Poznan was never going to be a conference where a spectacular outcome was to be expected," said French climate ambassador Brice Lalonde at the summit. "We hope for a spectacular outcome in Copenhagen next year. You can't expect a mouse to give birth to a mountain - it will only give birth to a mouse." (Translation: Small town, small summit, small expectations...
...vague for now. Although he sent observers to the summit, many greens wish he had deployed a high-level representative - like Vice President-elect Joseph Biden - to focus the world's attention on Poznan. As it is, the U.S. vacuum is the perfect excuse to justify the generally slow progress of the talks. Yet once Obama takes over on Jan. 20, he'll have less than a year to get ready for Copenhagen. That's nothing in U.N. negotiation time. (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
Cancer remains a scourge in America, but new government figures show that for the first time, both new cases and deaths from cancer declined simultaneously. What's more, while cancer rates for men and women often diverge, with one group making progress while the other loses ground, in the latest report, both sexes improved. The news, however, was not as happy elsewhere. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released its World Cancer Report, revealing that the burden of cancer around the world has more than doubled over the past 30 years. What's most...
...borne little fruit. In an interview with TIME this summer, President Karzai was told about Sweeta's case and promised to look into it, but Sweeta's sister Saleha had already given up on the government, and wondered if the past seven years of foreign intervention have brought any progress at all to Afghanistan. "If the Taliban were still here, that rapist would have already been executed by now. It would have been a lesson for all," she says. "If there is no law, and the government does not listen to people's complaints, then it is better...
Faced with a rapidly spreading insurgency that threatens to overturn seven years of incremental progress in Afghanistan - a survey released Monday by the International Council on Security and Development reports that the Taliban are present in 72% of the country - the U.S. and its allies are struggling to find a new strategy to stabilize Afghanistan. President George W. Bush has announced that about 4,500 more soldiers will be sent there early in the new year, but that is a fraction of what General David McKiernan, head of NATO forces in Afghanistan, has said that he needs to successfully conduct...