Word: progressives
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...level conference on climate change at U.N. headquarters that included Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao. With less than 70 days remaining before the Copenhagen summit begins, the message was unusually clear: There is no more time to waste. "The world's glaciers are now melting faster than human progress to protect them - and us," Ban told the assembled leaders...
...Copenhagen: Still in Doubt Despite signs of progress at U.N., the prospects for success at Copenhagen are still cloudy. How poor countries should be aided in adapting to climate change, how to prevent tropical deforestation and especially what level of emissions cuts developed nations will agree to are all issues that have yet to be resolved. "I'm getting mixed signals," says Kandeh Yumkella, director-general of the U.N. Industrial Development Organization, who was backstage lobbying politicians at the summit...
...Taliban decided to mount a plot against targets in the U.S. "There are probably people [in the Taliban] who are saying, 'To get rid of the U.S., it's not enough to fight them here,' " says Lawrence Korb, a national-security expert at the Center for American Progress. After all, he points out, al-Qaeda's rationale for attacks on the U.S. was "to get us out of Saudi Arabia...
...nuclear-free Middle East may not be as grim as they seem. Several incentives could yet tempt Israel onto that path. For one thing, there's strong opposition in the U.S. and Europe to a military strike, which even in the best-case scenario would simply delay Iran's progress rather than end its nuclear program - possibly at the cost of a regional war. The U.S. might offer Israel extra security guarantees, like partnership with NATO. And then there's the fact that what the Iran threat represents is a changed game; Israel isn't the only regional player...
...learned anything during this time in the motherland, it is that true cultural progress cannot be measured by a nation’s willingness to abandon Hellman’s and Gap. It’s perfectly reasonable for Indians to be proud of how far they’ve come, particularly in a third-world country that is emerging as a strong player in the global economy. Still, a retreat inward is not only fundamentally flawed, but also ultimately futile. (Exports of goods and services as a share of India’s economy have practically quadrupled...