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...world has changed dramatically since the first Earth Summit, held 20 years ago in Stockholm (and also chaired by the indefatigable Strong). That event, which launched thousands of grass-roots conservation groups around the world and spawned environmental agencies and ministries in more than 115 nations, was held in the shadow of the cold war, when the planet was divided into rival East and West blocs and preoccupied with the perils of the nuclear arms race. With the collapse of the East bloc and the thawing of the cold war, a fundamental shift in the global axis of power...
...Count's outfit was nicknamed the Atomic Band, and the seismic swing on this set -- recorded on dates in Manhattan, Miami and Stockholm -- ought to come with a Geiger counter. Vintage arrangements by the likes of Neal Hefti and Frank Foster, players such as Thad Jones and Benny Powell, and the Count guiding the band from the piano with nimble majesty...
...Count's outfit was nicknamed the Atomic Band, and the seismic swing on this set -- recorded on dates in Manhattan, Miami and Stockholm -- ought to come with a Geiger counter. Vintage arrangements by the likes of Neal Hefti and Frank Foster, players such as Thad Jones and Benny Powell, and the Count guiding the band from the piano with nimble majesty...
...captors. "I'm a Christian and a Catholic," Anderson said last week. "It's required of me that I forgive, no matter how hard it may be." Father Jenco, by contrast, argues, "Anger is a very good emotion. Even Jesus got angry." While there is little evidence of the Stockholm syndrome, wherein captives begin to identify with their tormentors, several of the former detainees seem to have some empathy for the plight of the underpaid men who held them. Weir recalls that one of his guards lamented that he was as much a prisoner as Weir...
...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 of the Washington-based World Resources Institute, "our government is not accepting the responsibilities that come with the world's largest economy...