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...contention is not only that rich countries have been the biggest polluters, but also that they have done nothing about it," says Sunita Narain, director of the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, which organized a South Asian media workshop two weeks ago. Rich countries, or Annex-I nations of the Kyoto Protocol, were supposed to cut emissions 5.1% over 1990 levels by 2008-12, she explains. But barring the economies in transition (like those of Eastern Europe, whose economies collapsed following the breakup of the Soviet Union), developed countries' emissions actually increased 14.5% during this period...
Timoner has a way of gaining inside access to her subjects—who’ve ranged from an extremist Christian cult in South Carolina to the Dandy Warhols on tour—by fully integrating into their world. She even occupied her own cubicle in Harris’ Manhattan bunker and is currently distributing the film herself across the country...
...when Representative Joe Wilson, a little-known Republican and Army Reserve veteran from South Carolina shouted them at the nation's Commander in Chief on the night of Sept. 9, heads snapped. The House chamber took a collective gasp. Nancy Pelosi, sitting behind Obama, tensed and scowled as if she had just witnessed a crime, her disgust unhidden. (See TIME's photo essay "The Health-Care Debate Turns Angry...
...Despite such sentiments, Wilson's political foes in South Carolina did not hold back. "I hope the people of South Carolina will show their disdain for that," said Representative Jim Clyburn, the majority whip, who also represents the state. "To heckle is bad enough, but to use that one word, the one three-letter word that was not allowed to be used in my house while I was growing up, is beyond the pale...
...21st Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, a quick return to North America after a sojourn in Italy in 2006. No need to unpack the cold-weather clothes, because four months later, in the midst of winter in the southern hemisphere, will be the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Ever since the International Olympic Committee decided to stagger the Summer and Winter Games after 1992, the frozen sports have been played in the same year as the World Cup, giving fans two major events to watch...