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Business is getting right with the environment too. The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, based in Washington, is working with auto and oil giants including Ford, Chevron, Texaco and Shell to draft guidelines for incorporating biodiversity conservation into oil and gas exploration. And the center has helped Starbucks develop purchasing guidelines that reward coffee growers whose methods have the least impact on the environment. Says Nitin Desai, secretary-general of the Johannesburg summit: "We're hoping that partnerships--involving governments, corporations, philanthropies and NGOs--will increase the credibility of the commitment to sustainable development...
Length 172 ft. 275 ft. Width 41 ft. 38 ft., 6 in. Draft, loaded 10 ft. 6 in. 22 to 23 ft. Speed 8 knots 9 knots Armament Two 11-in. cannons 10 to 12 total cannons...
...nothing happened. After Genoa, says a senior intelligence official, there was a collective sigh of relief: "A lot of folks started letting their guard down." After the final deputies' meeting on Clarke's draft of a presidential directive, on July 16, it wasn't easy to find a date for the Principals' Committee to look at the plan--the last stage before the paper went to Bush. "There was one meeting scheduled for August," says a senior official, "but too many principals were out of town." Eventually a date was picked: the principals would look at the draft on Sept...
...suit. In a state where Indians make up 8% of the population, the suit could help galvanize Indian voters to turn out for a Senate race that both parties are making a priority: majority leader Tom Daschle is fighting hard for Democratic incumbent Tim Johnson, while President Bush helped draft Representative John Thune to oppose him. The suit could even force South Dakota to delay its fall elections if the U.S. District Court requires the state to wait while the U.S. Attorney General reviews the disputed statutes. South Dakota secretary of state Joyce Hazeltine, who had not yet seen...
...newspaper found that 86% of Japanese were concerned personal information would be misused. For now, the system only allows retrieval of basic information like addresses, but critics say a centralized network could be the first step in aggregating files residing in disparate bureaucratic databanks. The government has yet to draft an accompanying privacy law as promised. Worse, the new registry accidentally leaked information two days after the launch, sending letters to households in Moriguchi that contained the ID numbers, gender information and birthdates of other people. Adding insult to injury: Japanese cows were given a 10-digit...