Word: summiteering
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...draw back from the brink. Most important, another path exists--one that is better for people, less harmful to the environment and possible with the policies, knowledge and technologies at our disposal today. The human family has taken tentative steps in this enlightened direction. The purpose of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg is to ensure that we gain firmer footing on that road and stick to it once...
...their own increasingly fragile regime swept aside by anti-Western extremists. They haven't only demurred from allowing the U.S. to invade Iraq from their territory; they've actively rallied the Arab world against such an attack, choreographing Iraq's diplomatic rehabilitation among its neighbors at the April summit of the Arab League in Beirut...
...chart ("They always have wall charts") with dozens of threats. Tenet couldn't rule out a domestic attack but thought it more likely that al-Qaeda would strike overseas. One date already worrying the Secret Service was July 20, when Bush would arrive in Genoa for the G-8 summit; Tenet had intelligence that al-Qaeda was planning to attack Bush there. The Italians, who had heard the same report (the way European intelligence sources tell it, everyone but the President's dog "knew" an attack was coming) put frogmen in the harbor, closed airspace around the town and ringed...
...Guides can be hired in Hatu Buliko for $10, though the path to the peak is not difficult to find on your own. Climbing it is another matter. The three-hour hike is strictly for masochists or the blindly devout. The views from the summit, however, redeem the effort. Pony trails snake along mountain ridges, terraced rice paddies tumble down steep slopes, wisps of smoke rise from straw huts, and eagles hover on thermals far below. Those who undertake the climb midweek will, more likely than not, have the summit to themselves. Few experiences can match sitting aloft and alone...
...promised 1,200 new full-time patrols over the next five years. De Robien is also considering testing such innovative measures as putting "black boxes" in cars to record speed and maneuvering, and lowering legal blood-alcohol limits from .5 grams per liter to zero. After a September summit between government officials, automotive organizations and safety advocates, De Robien is expected to introduce new legislation by year...