Word: rios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WORLD LEADERS TO SEEK AN AUDIENCE with Vice President Albert Gore is, naturally enough, Norway's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, who headed the World Commission on Environment and Development. Brundtland's mission, however, could not be more environmentally incorrect. She wants her buddy from the Earth Summit in Rio to promise that the U.S. won't take punitive economic measures against Norway, which plans to defy an international moratorium on whaling...
...everything from see the start of a coup to hike through the Rancho Grande rainforest in Venezuela; learn the lambada and other Carnival dances in Rio; party with Desmond Tutu, the mayor of Cape Town, South African students and several ANC representatives at the Bishopscourt (Tutu's residence) in Cape Town; witness and anti-Moi riot in Nairobi, Kenya; learn mantras at the Madurai Temple in India; visit biotechnology production plants, rubber plantations and the beach in Malaysia; visit the Hsin-Chu Science Park in Taiwan; tour Guangzhou (Canton) in Southern China with the mayor to several of Southern China...
Whether we were hang-gliding in Rio, skydiving in South Africa, shopping in Hong Kong or singing karaoke in Japan, we were all caught crying and laughing with our new friends on the ship and the countries we visited. We learned to greet people in many different languages and we learned the responsibility we, as citizens of developed countries, have to lesser developed countries...
...cited concerns raised at last summer's environmental summit in Rio de Janiero--fears that the world's raw materials are in danger of quick depletion, that the world's population will soon be unable to feed itself and that global warming threatens economic progress--as "both uninformed and simply not documented...
Bush's lack of leadership was astounding and embarrassing for American representatives at the Rio conference. His administration remains the biggest obstacle to an international agreement to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions...