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...Climate Change summit in Copenhagen had finally ended when President Barack Obama emerged from a last-minute bargaining session with leaders of major developing nations to announce a deal. Obama quickly left town, aides saying Air Force One had to rush to beat the major snowstorm bearing down on Washington. Having agreed terms with the leaders of the U.S., China, India, Brazil and South Africa - the major carbon emitters of today and, even more importantly, of tomorrow - the President would have seemed to have brought two weeks of often fruitless negotiations, including at least one all-nighter, to a successful...
Amtrak - Amtrak's not posting any service alerts or passenger service notices on their Web site, and several routes—including Boston-New York, Boston-Chicago, and Boston-Washington, D.C.—have not indicated any expected deviations from their scheduled departures...
Delta Air Lines - You can reschedule any flight today with no charge as long as the plane leaves no later than Friday. Several flights tomorrow today have already been cancelled, including many flights leaving to New York, Washington and Delta's hub, Atlanta, before...
JetBlue Airways - You can reschedule any flight today with no charge as long as the plane leaves before Monday. Many flights that leave tomorrow this morning have already been cancelled, including flights leaving to New York, Washington, Houston, and Los Angeles...
...case, in fact, that Brazil has opened itself to charges of especially egregious hypocrisy. It's no secret that Brazil, especially under hugely popular President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has become a hemispheric counterweight to the U.S. And it loves to play tit-for-tat with Washington. Because Washington still insists Brazilians secure a visa before entering the U.S., Brasilia makes Americans pay for a "reciprocal" permit to get into Brazil; after the U.S. started thumb-printing foreigners in immigration lines after 9/11, Brazil obliged Americans to do the same. Those are understandable counterjabs. But while...