Word: rios
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...occasion is the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro next June. For two years, international committees have been hashing out a declaration of principles for the so-called Earth Summit. The bureaucrats have also been negotiating an ecologically sound agenda for the 21st century and a series of proposed agreements on the control of climate change, respect for biodiversity and a slowing of deforestation. But as the final negotiating sessions approach, U.S. intransigence on key issues means the summit may turn into little more than a biodegradable photo opportunity for heads...
...already too late in coming to grips with the still unknown effects of global climate change caused by emissions of so-called greenhouse gases. Says Maurice Strong, secretary-general of UNCED: "This conference is an opportunity that may not occur again in our lifetime. When, if not at Rio, will we address these problems...
...might ask the Bush Administration. The U.S. is resisting pressure from the European Community and Japan to use the Rio conference as a forum to set targets and timetables for the reduction of warming gases, among other things. It has also resisted pressure to commit new funds so that developing economies can grow without destroying precious ecosystems. Washington's posture stands in contrast to the leadership the U.S. exercised in 1972 at the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, which first established the environment as an area of international cooperation. Now, says James Gustave Speth, president...
...stay in touch is the beeper cover, available in quilted, metallic or even mock-crocodile leather. At $22 to $26, the cover is a hot item at Macy's and other department stores. "Sales have tripled since its introduction four months ago," says Jerry Gelbwaks, president of Do-Rio, which distributes the covers for the manufacturer, Beeper-Tux. Experts predict that the use of beepers will increase more than 16% this year, but with some of them under wraps, who'll know...
...denying the key role that property levies have played in creating the vast educational gap between rich and poor. School trustees in the affluent Texas district of Glen Rose, for example, annually dole out $9,326 per pupil -- three times as much as the per-student allocation in the Rio Grande Valley's bleak Roma district. For reformers, the chief ally has been state courts, which have ruled in many cases -- Kentucky, Texas, New Jersey and Montana, for example -- that inequalities are unconstitutional. In Tennessee, 77 school districts asked a state court to take the same approach...