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...Online vs. 32 minutes using a regular 56KB/second telephone dial-up connection. The reason Europe Online is so speedy is that its network uses multiple technologies for the up-link to the satellite. Among them: cable modems, integrated services digital network (ISDN) lines, digital subscriber lines (DSL), wireless application protocol (WAP) and other broadband distribution systems...
...million copies; of a heart attack; in Naples, Fla. Ludlum's first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, written at 42, became an immediate best seller. He gave up his day job as a theater producer but continued to do the occasional TV commercial voice-over. His novel The Sigma Protocol, completed before his death, is due in bookstores this October...
...Kyoto Protocol is the only tool on the table to control the greenhouse gases that are driving global warming. But that treaty has been rejected by the Bush administration as unfair because, initially, it does not require developing countries to cut their emissions. However, many observers believe Bush opposes it because the U.S. is by far the greatest greenhouse-gas polluter, and controlling fossil fuel emissions might injure the economy...
...closely related to events that occurred that same autumn day, half a world away, at the Hague. Thousands of policymakers and scientists from all over the world had gathered, hoping to dot the i's, cross the zeds and umlaut the o's on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protocol was devised to curb the industrial emission of six gases, CO2 among them, that are slowly--actually quickly in geological terms--turning the earth into a hothouse. But no final accord was reached...
...struggled to introduce a cap-and-trade system into the Kyoto Protocol, and achieved it by agreeing to a tough, many say impossible, target: bringing emissions 7% below 1990 levels from 2008 to 2012. The irony of the current situation is that the Europeans, reluctant to accept trading at first, have become its champion; Britain next month will become the first country to embark on a national trading system...