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...discussion, which was sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students, featured both Diamond magazine founder Matthew M. Di Pasquale ’08 and H Bomb editor Brandon T. Perkovich...
...vigorous intervention of Kenya's neighbors, and of the wider world - particularly Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who worked the phones ceaselessly - the belligerents would not have set aside their differences. The upside of this is that the Kenyan crisis has empowered the region and the African Union to intervene robustly when things go badly wrong in an important member country. The downside is that the giant sucking sound when the Annan deal was signed was Kenya's sovereignty being flushed into the global diplomatic ether. As a Kenyan, I worry that it could take a long time...
...splintering among rebels and janjaweed is undermining international efforts to end the conflict. Military solutions are proving futile: the 9,000-odd U.N. and African Union peacekeepers currently in Darfur have failed to stanch the violence, and the planned deployment of 17,000 more has been delayed by Sudanese-government intransigence, insufficient troop contributions and a lack of equipment--notably helicopters, a critical component when policing a region almost the size of Texas. Attempts to get the warring parties to negotiate a settlement have gone nowhere. The rebels' goals vary wildly, and their personalities are prickly. "You can't have...
...past. The electricity isn't much: his devices now generate hundreds of microwatts at most, and there may be an upper limit to how much energy can really be scavenged from vibrations. "It's very unlikely on a big scale," says Beeby, who directed the European Union's Vibration Energy Scavenging project. "It will never compete with wind power or anything like that...
...rebels and should therefore be charged with financing terrorists, who Bogota alleges are also seeking uranium to make a dirty bomb. Uribe, remarkably, even asked the U.N. to charge Chavez with "genocide." The FARC, long involved in drug trafficking and ransom kidnapping, is on the State Department and European Union's lists of terrorist organizations; but FARC experts tell TIME that the group, despite its ample wherewithal, is unlikely to seek such a weapon. President Bush, meanwhile, said unequivocally this week as he lobbied Congress for a U.S.-Colombia free-trade pact, that "America will stand with Colombia...