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...left out of the Kyoto Protocol on curbing emissions in part due to the complexity of assigning national responsibility for gases spewed by international flights. Just getting governments to share air space more freely, which would allow planes to fly more direct routes and cut fuel consumption, has proven to be an ongoing headache...
...satellite technology has already proven successful overseas and in the U.S. The European Union has upgraded to satellite technology in its air traffic control systems. Package delivery company UPS uses the technology in many of its planes and at its hub in Louisville, Ken. The FAA has also been testing it since the late 1990s in Alaska, which had a high accident rate because of the rough terrain in the state. Since the satellite technology was installed on small planes in Alaska, its accident rate there has declined 40%, says Blakey...
...occurred in June 2005, on a Grozny-to-Moscow train, but the perpetrators were an ethnic Russian Nazi group. Putin prepares to stand down once his second presidential tenure expires in May 2008. Kremlin insiders don't know who will succeed him, but throughout history, acts of terror have proven useful rationales to seize or hold on to power. The apartment bombings of 1999 helped make Putin president. A seizure of a school by terrorists in the city of Beslan in September 2004 let him broaden his hold authoritarian grip on the state. Last night's train bombing may prove...
...proven it can fight and win an election. Now it must prove it can govern. "Unless the DPJ truly organizes itself as a functional political party, it'll be a repeat of their last Upper House victory, which was followed by a loss," says Jun Iio of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. Instead of simply shutting down the government in an effort to force Abe out, the DPJ should relax its rhetoric and let the Prime Minister continue to hang himself. They can earn public trust by forging alliances with sympathetic LDP members to set an agenda that...
...sudden rush to embrace a nation once lumped among Washington's most loathed regimes? According to Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, who played a central role in negotiating the release of the Bulgarians, it's because Libya has proven it wants to help solve problems rather than create them. Gaddafi says Libya has mediated several conflict and crisis situations in Africa, including Darfur and Niger. That role, he says, has made the nation "the main diplomatic actor in North Africa." Gaddafi also confides Libyan diplomats have advised Blair on his Middle East mission, and have sought to facilitate his contacts with...