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From his exile in Nigeria between August 2003 and last week, human rights groups say Taylor continued to meddle in the internal affairs of Liberia. In the run up to last year's Liberian presidential poll, which elected Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Taylor financed the campaigns of several loyalists who ended...
That may be true--but Taylor's capture had as much to do with realpolitik as with justice. For years, although under indictment by the war-crimes tribunal and confined to a tin-roofed villa in Calabar, in Nigeria's steamy southeast, Taylor retained the support in Liberia of thousands...
No one is out of the woods yet, however. The Specter bill faces 10 tough days of floor debate. And the part that deals with verifying employee status isn't even finished yet. "We're very concerned about that," says Reiff. Even if the Senate does pass the bill, the...
"Things are happening a lot faster than anyone predicted," says Bill Chameides, chief scientist for the advocacy group Environmental Defense and a former professor of atmospheric chemistry. "The last 12 months have been alarming." Adds Ruth Curry of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts: "The ripple through the scientific...
That is what scientists call a feedback loop, and it's a nasty one, since once you uncap the Arctic Ocean, you unleash another beast: the comparatively warm layer of water about 600 ft. deep that circulates in and out of the Atlantic. "Remove the ice," says Woods Hole's...