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...Although the Clinton administration helped negotiate the treaty and signed it last year, Kyoto has plenty of American critics. Governor George W. Bush for one, who, like his oil industry backers, remains unconvinced of the scientific basis for all this global warming stuff despite the consensus among mainstream scientists. And they complain that developing nations aren't required by Kyoto to do enough, even though everyone agrees that the industrialized countries have created the lion's share of the problem...
...doesn't shock me that some of the retired Jews in Palm Beach may have miscast their votes. Although both of my grandmothers, who live just a few miles south of Palm Beach, know more about politics than any person with a job, they are stymied by technology. My maternal grandmother, Mama I, is so defiantly anti-VCR and cell phone that whenever she reaches her friend Roz's answering machine, she hangs up on it and says, "What does she need with that for? Like she's some big business executive...
...once again been confounded. Two Israeli teachers were killed and nine people - at least five of them children - were wounded when a mortar shell exploded near a school bus in the Gaza Strip on Monday. It was the most serious attack against Israeli settlers during the current violence, and although three different groups claimed responsibility, the blast follows a pattern of similar attacks in the area by the Islamic Jihad, an Islamist faction opposed to the peace process. But despite denials on the Palestinian side, Israel blamed the attack on the "Tanzim" militia of Yasser Arafat?s Fatah organization...
...Francisco Tudela, who resigned last month following Montesinos?s return to Peru from a failed bid for asylum in Panama. But the legislature has not yet accepted Tudela?s resignation. Such discord among civilian politicians is just the sort of thing that gets the military a little edgy, and although its commanders released a statement at the weekend that they would support any constitutional change of power, there are a number of competing constitutional scenarios that remain to be decided...
...Senate remains overwhelmingly skeptical of a treaty that would inevitably prove costly to the nation of whom it requires the greatest cuts, and against that background U.S. negotiators are trying to find ways of easing the load required by the treaty. Although it has been agreed that countries such as the U.S. will be able to buy polluting "rights" from countries that produce less than their limit of carbon gases to cover inevitable shortfalls in achieving U.S. targets - in other words, pay other countries to increase their own cuts - that could still prove to be a costly solution...