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...policymakers are preoccupied by current politics, the scarcity of resources, etc. The fact that all of them came to the Rio Summit, however, means that politicians are beginning to understand that we have reached a watershed in our relationship with the environment. Last November, 1,500 scientists, including 100 Nobel prizewinners, stated at a conference that if things go on like this, within decades our biosphere will suffer irreversible damage. I think this realization will change the way politicians think...
...meeting of the Global Forum in Moscow in 1990, when he was still Soviet President, Gorbachev proposed an organization roughly analogous to the International Red Cross to contend with environmental problems that cross national boundaries. Last year the Earth Summit in Rio passed a resolution establishing the International Green Cross, and six months later the Dutch government donated $1.1 million to get things going. At about the same time, Roland Wiederkehr, an environmentalist and member of the Swiss Federal Assembly, started the World Green Cross. Gracefully acknowledging Gorbachev's star power, Wiederkehr accepted the Russian's invitation to merge...
...especially in high-cost California, that they could operate less expensively in the Rockies. That has given the mountain states a leg up in the interregional competition popularly known as "smokestack chasing." Companies discovered that even after factoring in transportation costs, basing themselves inland could be advantageous. This spring Rio Rancho, New Mexico, used a $114 million tax-incentive package to lure Intel into expanding its local semiconductor plant. The deal was the largest private investment in a U.S. city by a single firm this year. It means an additional 2,000 jobs in what is already the fastest-growing...
...many Brazilians had no sympathy for the victims. "Everyone is making them out to be heroes," says taxi driver Joao Mendes, "but they were not sweet flowers." Citizens calling in to local talk shows applauded the massacre. Says Alexandre Coelho Reis, 23, who works in Rio: "Many of these 13-year-old kids have killed. They deserve...
McAlpine was a natural for the transition, a political junkie who grew up watching the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour and CNN. His philosophy is the same as ever: a "white sovereign homeland," maybe "all land north of the Rio Grande." "Skinheads grow up," he says simply. "They grow their hair out, they disappear and go into society undetected, and nobody can tell...