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...treaty to finally come into force, which can only happen when nations accounting for 55% of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions sign up to it. Although 120 countries have ratified the protocol, the U.S. - the world's largest emitter - rejected it in 2001, meaning the only way the threshold could be met was for Russia to join. The treaty requires industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2012. Unbroken Circle MIDDLE EAST The Palestinian Cabinet declared a state of emergency as Israel continued a major military operation inside the Gaza Strip, intended, it said, to stop Palestinian militants...
...capacity to conduct a proper inquiry and is asking for an international probe into the bomb blasts. While they grope for clues, security experts agree that the attack, with its use of hand grenades instead of crude, homemade bombs, shows how brazen Bangladesh's terrorists have become. "A new threshold has been crossed," says former Foreign Minister Kamal Hossain. "We have seen a tremendous escalation by communal and antidemocratic forces...
...related feature is the “Low Balance Warning,” which can be sent to designated e-mail addresses after the Crimson Cash balance falls below a predetermined threshold...
...changed our focus, but I won’t pretend that her money, her Botox, and her almost laughably self-serious mien drew less attention than the substance, as such, of her Evita-like oration. John Kerry, with a salute and tough declarative prose, crossed the commander-in-chief threshold Thursday night and dominated the conversation for about the 30 minutes it took to leave the hall and try to sneak into a party down the street...
...technique being steadily refined, the records have started to pile up: in 1998 Ken Bradshaw from Sunset Beach in Hawaii rode the first wave over 60 ft.; in 2002 Brazilian Carlos Burle surfed a 68-ft. swell; and this year Cabrinha reached the 70-ft. threshold. Sharp says storm patterns have been relatively subdued in the past few years, but he thinks that when the next El Nino warming of the Pacific happens, adding 20% to 30% to the power of storms likely to impact prime surfing sites, surfers will have a chance at 100-ft. swells. Two jet skiers...