Word: rios
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...RIO SUMMIT: Bush Plays...
...families in this country who want to work, some of whom can be thrown out of work if we go for too costly an answer to some of these problems. And I'm not going to forget the American family. And if they don't understand that in Rio, too bad." To Bush's critics, that is the kind of us- against-the-world attitude that the Earth Summit was supposed to transcend...
During the environment summit in Rio last week, a Brazilian group called Defenders of the Earth was updating its Lie-O-Meter on a billboard nearby. Purpose: to track "deceit, from 0 to 100" among participants. At week's end the U.S. delegation was scoring...
...dream of environmentalists finally transformed into grand reality. After two years of painstaking preparations, the Earth Summit got under way in Rio de Janeiro with a global guest list of more than 100 world leaders and 30,000 other people concerned about the planet, from climatologists to tribal chieftains. The get-together's size is matched only by its ambition: to put civilization on a path that will sustain economic development without destroying the environment that supports all life. Canadian Maurice Strong, who organized the United Nations-sponsored meeting, set the tone of urgency: "We are either going to save...
...questions are more than idle speculation. This week at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders will be adding their signatures to a treaty to prevent climate change, a document that was significantly weakened during presummit negotiations, in part because of U.S. contentions that the threat of global warming has been overblown. But the Bush Administration's skepticism must contend with the direct experience of millions of citizens who are worried that when the weather gets as odd as it has been of late, something must be wrong...