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Finance Committee Chair Robert S. Schwartz '00 said that at this semester's student group summit, increased funding was the most common request...
After hot debates and serious negotiations at the Kyoto summit on climate change, the European Union, the U.S. and Japan agreed on a treaty with specific targets for each party [ENVIRONMENT, Dec. 22]. Vice President Al Gore, however, announced afterward that the agreement would not be presented to the U.S. Senate for ratification until developing countries have joined the pact. I wonder if he thinks they will participate in the treaty in a reasonable period of time. I suspect that the U.S. went to Kyoto with no intention of being serious about the agreements to be reached there. The value...
...INTO THIN AIR (Villard) In May 1996 Jon Krakauer reached the 29,028-ft. summit of Mount Everest. His assignment for Outside magazine would, it seemed, end in triumph. But the day did not. A storm arose that killed 11 other climbers. Krakauer's book dramatically reports this calamity and examines the proliferating, expensive tours that offer novices the top of the world. Some of them live to tell their tales...
Lacking answers, the summit wound down with a panel of actual children--a cute if predictable stunt. Onstage with their parents and teachers before a ballroom full of strange, faceless adults, the kids readily assured us that they do all they can to avoid naughty material on the Net. They were perhaps a bit more credible when talking about the genuine fun you can have online--a notion that may have escaped many of their listeners. The president of a Website company bet that if I asked summit participants what they used the Internet for, most would say nothing...
...more reports on the Internet/Online Summit, see our Website at time.com