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Last March, the Eliot senior confounded most in the swimming world by capturing third place in the 400-yard IM and sixth in the 200-yard backstroke at the NCAA championships. Those performances were good enough to secure his childhood dram: an All-America selection...
Increasingly at odds with post-cold war norms, China also claims there is no truth in Western charges that it secretly sells nuclear and ballistic missile technology to Third World countries, colludes to evade customs duties or violates copyright agreements...
...some environmental progress in individual countries, the state of the world has mostly gone downhill. Air pollution, a major issue in Stockholm, has grown significantly worse in most cities. Even more alarming, it is now overshadowed by broad atmospheric changes, such as ozone depletion and the buildup of greenhouse gases. According to the Washington- based Worldwatch Institute, one of the hundreds of environmental pressure groups advising the Earth Summit negotiators, the world has lost 200 million hectares (500 million acres) of trees since 1972, an area roughly one-third the size of the continental U.S. The world's farmers, meanwhile...
...Just watch me. I will not live like a Third World dictator. I will not have a motor cavalcade. It has nothing to do with security. It has everything to do with the regal presidency...
...person telling the story that matters," he says. "It's the willingness of the world to listen." While Hanan is a member of the "higher committee" that determines Palestinian positions in the negotiations, her colleagues differ on how influential she is there. She does not have the automatic gravitas belonging to representatives of the various factions; on the other hand, her often sound advice follows no party line. Another delegate says she is just an "excellent packager." A third says "the real power is elsewhere...