Word: protocol
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...gone, the lichens banished, and Jacques Marsal, one of the cave's boy discoverers, was in the cave almost every day, alert to even the slightest changes. Studies had determined that the cave could handle about five visitors a day for 35 minutes each, five days a week; that protocol was never exceeded for the next 30 years. Since 1983, the crowds that come to the region have had to settle for Lascaux II, a modern facsimile that gives them an inkling of the cave paintings' power. But before the fungus outbreak, anyone determined and patient enough could successfully petition...
...Jong-wook, who died of a brain hemorrhage last week at the age of 61, never really enjoyed the protocol demands of his job as director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO); he seemed happiest rolling up his sleeves and making things happen. When he took the WHO post in 2003, he startled many experts by calling for access to drugs for three million HIV/AIDS sufferers by the end of 2005. It was a hugely ambitious goal?and focused global attention as never before on the injustice of people in poor countries dying because they could not afford lifesaving...
...reach the village of Nyarukamba in western Uganda, visitors have to clamber up a thin, almost vertical dirt track. It's not the kind of place you would expect to find subsistence farmers surfing the Web with wi-fi computers or making VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing--thanks to a wireless, solar-powered communications system installed in the Ruwenzori mountains by Inveneo, a San Francisco nonprofit...
Technology, properly distributed, is a great equalizer as well: it gives little guys with big ideas a chance to compete against big guys with little ideas. It can bring the third world into the global economy—once an Internet connection is available, voice over Internet Protocol makes it possible for real time collaboration even if one party is in Tijuana and the other in Tanzania, at essentially no additional cost. Lest this devolve into feel-good boosterism, it’s worth noting technology can be used to further less noble goals as well—as soon...
...letter also offers some specific Iranian starting points for negotiation. Rohani said Iran would "consider ratifying the Additional Protocol, which provides for intrusive and snap inspections," and that it would also "address the question of preventing 'break-out'" - or abandonement of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Independent nuclear experts consulted by TIME said these proposals were "hopeful" signs. p> However, on the key U.S. demand that Iran forgo uranium enrichment on its own soil, because of international fears the process would permit Tehran to develop weapons-grade fissile material, Rohani said Iran would agree only "to negotiate with...