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...Elsewhere, in Calcutta, India's cricket XI (as cricket protocol describes the 11 members of a team) were faring no better in their attempt to stop the Australian juggernaut. The arrogant, swaggering Aussies had won 16 straight test matches (a remarkable achievement in a sport whose test matches, which pitch country against country, are played over five days and as often end in a draw as produce a result), and struggling India was expected to put up only modest resistance. Indeed, Indian cricket has been as subject to the bribery malaise as its politics, with the former captain...
...does about global warming. Scientists now warn that unless we cut output of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, the earth could heat up by more than 10[degrees]F this century. Clinton made speeches about the threat and sent Al Gore to Japan to help negotiate the Kyoto protocol to curb carbon emissions. But then they made no real effort to build support for the preliminary agreement, which has yet to be turned into a detailed treaty that nations can ratify. Bush has opposed the Kyoto pact because it exempts China and other developing nations, and he isn't likely...
...Elsewhere in Europe, public distaste for the concept of cloning has reached the highest ranks of government. Thursday, legislatures in Slovakia, Slovenia, Greece, Spain and Georgia ratified a protocol to its Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. It is, according to the council, "the first and only binding international agreement on cloning." Member nations are strictly prohibited from developing technology that could lead to the cloning of humans. France has outlawed human cloning altogether...
...Aggie policy calls for the editor-in-chief to approve any political or potentially controversial ads, Agopian said. In this case, she said, protocol broke down...
Until very recently, it seemed unlikely that President George W. Bush would take to heart these signs of things to come. After all, throughout his campaign he had rejected as "unfair to Americans" the Kyoto Protocol, a reasonable 1997 agreement among industrialized nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and he has been very quiet on this issue since moving into the White House...