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...toxic waste. The legal framework around shipbreaking, like much in the maritime business, is murky. In 2004, the signatories of the 1989 Basel Convention, which regulates the transport of hazardous waste, agreed that a ship bound for demolition could be considered as such material, and hence is subject to strict rules on its movements. France is a Basel signatory, but its courts have ruled that, because the Clemenceau is "war equipment," they have no jurisdiction to rule whether or not it qualifies as waste. Indian Environment Minister Thiru A. Raja insisted last week that "ships that contain asbestos as part...
...teaching mission in sub-Saharan Africa. I was appalled to see patients there with acute pneumonia (very likely related to aids) sent home to die, unless the family could pay $180 in cash for hospitalization. I am reassured to read that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands strict accountability from its grantees. Albert Fournier Amiens, France I am sick and tired of seeing bono in the news posing as a superhero saving the poor. The world is full of organizations and unknown individuals who could achieve considerably more than Bono has in the fight against poverty if they were...
...chance to stop the epidemic spread of a mutated avian-flu virus by containing it at its point of origin. A few mining towns in Colorado were able to avoid the 1918 flu by barring outsiders for a few months during the epidemic. Australia mostly escaped because of a strict quarantine of incoming ships...
...Harvard, when prosecuting oligarchs, Putin went “too far yet not far enough.” He went after the oligarchs that did not support him, like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, yet suspiciously overlooked friendly others such as Roman Abramovich. Furthermore, the increasingly complacent Parliament was cajoled into passing strict controls on civil liberties. In a move almost unnoticed by Western media, Andrei Illarionov, a top economic adviser to Putin, resigned last week, loudly proclaiming Russia to be “no longer a free country.” To our journalists, it seems gas is ultimately more important than...
...occasionally let his son come to see his work at the statehouse, was widely admired for his nonpartisan approach. Although people knew he was a Republican, both parties trusted his judgment, putting him in charge of a redistricting project in the 1960s. He was also known for being strict, firing employees who violated the rules of the apolitical office by expressing their views of pending legislation. And like his son, he was a stickler for careful writing, sharply criticizing any material his staff members wrote that had grammatical errors...