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...kept no smut in the house, at least that I ever found, but a good friend's dad had quite the cache of Playboys, as well as a couple of "naturist" magazines. That's how life was lived in those days, and nobody had to convene a three-day summit meeting in Washington to worry about...
...ruled that the CDA violated adults' First Amendment rights, leaving the whole issue of children and the Internet in something of a legal vacuum. Since policymakers abhor vacuums even more than Nature does, the capital found itself host last week of a conference graced with the title of "Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children." Was there no budget for a clever acronym...
...politicians conclude their 10-day environmental summit in Kyoto tomorrow, an unlikely band of scientists and entrepreneurs is reviving a long-forgotten technology that may represent our best hope for solving the problem of global warming: the fuel cell...
Agreement on the IMF's central role was the chief accomplishment of last week's Vancouver summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-Operation forum. The U.S. had been trying to head off some efforts by Asian countries to set up a separate, regional body to handle the bailouts. Such a move, Washington feared, would have undermined the IMF, which over 50 years has built up the expertise--and, even more important, the credibility--to handle these complicated and politically sensitive operations. The salient point, said President Clinton, is that "on a global level, the role of the IMF remains...
...allies being glad-handed in Teheran Monday was a troubling spectacle for Madeleine Albright ? and U.S. policy on the Middle East. Iran trumpeted the arrival of representatives from the 55 member states of the Islamic Conference ? including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt and other U.S. allies ? for a summit which opens on Tuesday was heralded by Iran as a victory over Washington?s policy of isolating Teheran. Many of the same moderate Arab governments had stood up Albright last month at an economic summit in Doha in Qatar in order to express their displeasure at Washington?s performance...