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...another five, six or 10 months of talks providing any significant benefits." Fed up with the stonewalling, the U.S. and major E.U. countries such as France, Britain and Germany have now signaled their readiness to recognize Kosovo, though a handful of smaller E.U. states like Spain and Cyprus may yet withhold formal recognition, worried that such a concession might encourage separatists on their own turf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo: Into the Unknown | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

...monks and nuns demonstrating on the streets of Rangoon made me cry. Religion is all that the Burmese have had since the military came to power in 1962. And being a Buddhist, I consider the government's mistreatment of the monks beyond disgusting. Ma Hnin Thurein, Almería, Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/22/2007 | See Source »

...reflect a growing interest in developing nations, which have welcomed the biggest influx of American students—the number of students in China, for instance, increased 35 percent in 2004-2005, and India and Argentina witnessed a 53 percent growth. Compare such statistics to more developed nations like Spain or the United Kingdom, which saw flat or negative growth...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin | Title: The Educated Imperialist | 11/20/2007 | See Source »

...politicians culled from three other IPCC panels convened throughout the year, read like what it is: a final warning to humanity. "Today the world's scientists have spoken clearly, and with one voice," said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, who attended the publication of the report in Valencia, Spain. Climate change "is the defining challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Last Warning on Global Warming | 11/17/2007 | See Source »

...human population.” The pair had sent cheek swabs to the Genographic Project, a National Geographic effort that aims to map humanity’s genetic journey through history using patterns of known mutations that differ among populations. The tests traced Castelo-Branco back to Spain, a short hop over the border from his homeland that came as no surprise. This was not the case for Sassanfar, whose lineage was traced to Northern Europe, an entirely different continent. “My family on my mother’s side has lived in Iran for the past...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Genetic Testing Reveals Surprises | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

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