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...experience will allow him to pursue his environmental activism and studies from a different perspective. “I think Ireland is a really neat place to be right now,” Miller said. “On the one hand, they’ve committed to Kyoto [Protocol] but on the other their economy is experiencing ridiculous growth. I think reconciling these two things will pose a huge problem for them.” Miller’s passion for the environment began back home in North Dakota. He said that the devastation caused by the rapid housing...
Ruckus' technology also enables Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) services to stream television and video around a home. An alternative to cable and satellite TV that has barely left a mark in the U.S., IPTV is popular in Europe and Asia, where Ruckus partners with service providers. Lo says IPTV will gain converts in the U.S. "Right now we're slaves to cable and satellite TV," she says, "where you need to wait weeks for someone to check your wiring and then install cables. With IPTV you just buy a subscription, and it all works wirelessly...
Should ratifying the Kyoto Protocol be a priority...
Although Bush plans to visit the thriving stock exchange in Ho Chi Minh City--formerly Saigon--this country is still officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. As protocol demanded, he met with the General Secretary of the Communist Party and was photographed with a massive bust of the revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh. The President said one of the most poignant moments of the trip was passing the lake that Senator John McCain, as a Navy pilot, was pulled from after his plane was hit while on a bombing run. "He suffered a lot as a result of his imprisonment...
...illegality of the war—never mind that numerous academics have argued the war is legal under international law. When it is impossible to argue that U.S. foreign policy is illegal, it will be deemed immoral, as with the United States’ failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. If a certain policy’s legality and morality are both difficult to refute, it is then declared to go against Western norms. The death penalty fits into this final category. While it is the U.S.’ sovereign right to execute its inmates, and there is disagreement...