Word: talkfest
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...theme of early April's meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, a political and economic forum for eight South Asian countries, was "connectivity." Despite the fact that this talkfest slogan was so obvious as to be meaningless, regional leaders took it seriously enough. During the meeting they agreed to work toward a South Asian community that has a "smooth flow of goods, services, peoples, technologies, knowledge, capital, culture and ideas ..." Yet even as the agreement was being drafted, bureaucrat underlings back home were contemplating new ways to separate themselves from neighboring countries-not through trade barriers...
Part NPR (without the pretense of objectivity), part Comedy Central's talkfest Tough Crowd (with fewer sex jokes), Air America started on six stations--in New York City; Los Angeles; Chicago; Minneapolis, Minn.; Portland, Ore.; and Inland Empire, Calif.as well as on XM Satellite Radio and its own streaming website, www.airamericaradio.com It can't yet touch the range or ad rates of Rush (600 stations, 20 million weekly listeners) and his ruck. Much of the "commercial" time goes to public-service spots--the same few spots. If we hear a certain parent-teacher ad one more time, we may turn...
...TIME president Eileen Naughton aptly predicted, these emotional topics produced fireworks. At one point, the Nobel laureate James Watson, whose discovery 50 years ago with Francis Crick of DNA?s double helix was the inspiration for the three-day talkfest, showed that even at age 74, he could be as feisty as ever. When ethicist Daniel Callahan insisted that bioscientists didn?t absolutely need embryonic stem cells in their quest to cure certain intractable ailments, Watson roared from his seat: ?That?s crap.? Stunned into momentary silence, Callahan eventually replied that maybe scientists could use them under certain circumstances...
Officially the summit, which wrapped up last week in Johannesburg, was to discuss and agree upon a plan for sustainable development, that much-discussed but little-understood buzzword of the moment. But at times the main U.N. talkfest, held in the upmarket suburb of Sandton, Africa's richest square mile, was lost in the gaggle of voices and slogans surrounding the conference. At the Ubuntu Village (ubuntu is Zulu for humanity), booths touting the environmental credentials of multinational oil companies stood beside those of tiny green groups. One promoted the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi as environmentally friendly. "Gandhi was green...
that would allow hunting under strict licensing. In a quandary, the government invoked another six-month talkfest, after which it promised to introduce a bill to settle the sport's fate. But the backbenchers are angry and hunting's future looks bleak...