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Jeff Immelt isn't your garden-variety environmental apostle. A math whiz who played football at Dartmouth, he's not apt to tramp about the wilderness or have Zen moments atop majestic mountain peaks. Immelt bestrides the summit of General Electric--a $152 billion conglomerate supplying everything from home appliances to jet engines to entertainment, via NBC Universal. When the GE CEO isn't globetrotting in his role as chief salesman, he unwinds with an activity that Earth Day types typically abhor: golf. "What gets me pumped is hitting a six-iron 160 yards on top of a hill...
...playing host at the annual get-together of leaders of the world's major industrialized countries, the G-8, British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke with TIME's London bureau chief J.F.O. McAllister about Blair's vision for the summit and how it differs from that of President George W. Bush. Blair's agenda for the confab concentrates on climate change and aid to Africa...
...SUMMIT WON'T SET TARGETS OR TIMETABLES...
...Live 8, a 10-city music extravaganza that organizer Bob Geldof called "the greatest concert ever." The free concerts in all the G-8 countries, plus South Africa, were meant to raise not money but awareness of poverty in Africa ahead of this week's G-8 summit in Scotland. Of course, it's not up to rock stars to decide whether the global antipoverty campaign will ultimately be effective. But they were still at their persuasive best. Sting, part of the star-studded London concert, below, rewrote the lyrics to Every Breath You Take to send...
...Live 8 concerts in an effort to raise awareness of some very important issues in the run-up to a G8 conference. But it is quite another thing when he goes so far as to tell Canada’s head of government not to bother attending the Gleneagles Summit unless he’s willing to implement, posthaste, a major shift in his country’s foreign aid policy. Geldof crossed the line with his admonition of Prime Minister Martin, which is a real shame, because the man just might have a point, after...