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...There are no excuses for being a vagabond." SAMAK SUNDARAVEJ, Governor of Bangkok, explaining his campaign to rid the city of homeless people ahead of the apec summit next month...
...Iraq (New Europe) and prodding the U.S. toward greater international cooperation (Old Europe). It isn't easy, but a united Europe would have an even harder time getting both things done. Even so, an eerie sense of déjà vu marks the aftermath of the Berlin Summit. With a new wave of anti-French anger rising in the U.S., Chirac and Schröder are preparing for private meetings in New York this week with George W. Bush. Reports from Washington suggest that the Bush Administration still hopes to bust up the Franco-German entente by pulling...
Throughout a discussion period at the end of the summit, industry leaders pointed to misunderstandings between university labs and the companies that license the labs’ technologies. In particular, they expressed skepticism over the readiness of university-developed technologies for the commercial market, and the efficiency of the sale process...
...SUMMIT CONQUERED. By Keegan Reilly, 22, American paraplegic, who reached the top of Mount Fuji using a hand-powered quadricycle; in Japan. Paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident seven years ago, the amateur mountaineer subsequently scaled two other peaks. After starting his Fuji ascent, Reilly was delayed for eight hours by Japanese trail rangers who said bikes weren't allowed. His next goal: Mount Rainier, in Washington, and then Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America...
...From Anita's it was a short stroll to the viewing area at Top Station. The rewards all come at this summit, where the air is crisp and the views sheer and dramatic. The craggy peaks of the western Ghats, the rolling plains and immaculately laid-out tea plantations are all around. Top Station in fact straddles southeastern Kerala and the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu. The border bisects the village. I never got a chance to find out at which point, though, because as well as being greeted by the views I was met by a horde of local...