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...Jakarta. "Yet by our heedless actions we are eroding this biological capital at an alarming rate." TIME's Andrea Dorfman points out that the study is a result of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the pact signed by 160 countries at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. "This new report represents an unprecedented number of scientists," says Dorfman, "The problem with biodiversity studies in the past is that they used too small a sample to yield significant results, or studied a specific ecosystem and then make grandiose claims for the data. If this...
...never too early to start booking rooms for the Olympics, so here are the 10 cities on the IOC's short list for the Summer Olympics in 2004: Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, San Juan, Stockholm, Rome, Seville, Istanbul, Cape Town, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida) and a yet-to-be-determined city in France...
Last April brought representatives from 130 countries to Berlin for 11 days. They made exactly one decision: to spend two more years negotiating on how to meet the standards set by the 1992 Rio Earth Summit for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. In Mexico 18 different U.N. agencies are supposed to be running programs to help solve some of the country's worst problems, such as environmental pollution and drug smuggling. But Mexican officials working on the same troubles are hard put to cite anything significant that the U.N. agencies have done to help...
...scalp, in the process neither raising his voice nor losing his shy little smile. He's a much neater operative than Pulp's Vinnie. And his drug of choice is much less threatening; it's old movies. For he's also the kind of film geek who can identify Rio Bravo from a few snippets overheard on the TV set in another room, or mouth all the dialogue from the last scene of Touch of Evil as he sits entranced before the screen in a revival house...
...that's just to roll CO2 emissions back to 1990 levels, the goal most environmentalists endorse. To stave off global warming completely, Lindzen maintains, "you would have to reduce emissions to where they were in 1920." Despite noble proclamations issuing from meetings like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, that is virtually inconceivable. As economist Henry Jacoby of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management puts it, "If you said, 'Let's design a problem that human institutions can't deal with,' you couldn't find one better than global warming...