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...oppressive. One can hardly breathe - Bao Tong, a former aide to deposed Chinese communist leader Zhao Ziyang a U.N. draft accord on biological weapons. The agreement, which would have strengthened the 30-year ban on germ warfare, was effectively scuppered as U.S. representatives at the U.N. meeting in Geneva claimed it would not achieve its goals and would damage American interests. SPAIN Tourists Targeted Police in the southern tourist resort of M?laga defused a powerful car bomb planted by the Basque separatist organization ETA. The group had telephoned a warning that the bomb, which contained around 60 kg of explosives...
...workday sometimes finds John Forgach draped in mosquito netting, paddling the backwaters of the Amazon in a dugout canoe. He's on the hunt--for a new investment. Forgach, 52, spent decades making money the old-fashioned way, as an investment banker in places like Geneva and New York City. Now he is back in his native Brazil to show that preserving the environment and indigenous cultures can be profitable. As CEO of a Sao Paulo-based private company called A2R Environmental Funds, Forgach raises money from institutions like the Swiss government and the World Bank Group and invests mainly...
...there is not enough scientific proof to fundamentally alter the way airlines handle passengers, the challenges have spurred change: regulatory authorities are looking into the matter, and many airlines are upgrading their health advice to customers and crew, as well as assisting World Health Organization research begun in Geneva in March designed to settle the debate once and for all. Says a JAL executive: "The general line is that travelers should exercise their own common sense and not rely on airlines to play 'nanny.' But in this increasingly litigious world, that is a role we may have to play more...
...last year in Britain, a House of Lords report focusing on air travel and health issues tied DVT to sitting in a variety of cramped conditions, including cars and trains as well as airplanes. This March, a conference by the World Health Organization of scientists and industry representatives in Geneva concluded there was a probable but inconclusive link between air travel and DVT, and decided that up to two years' more research was needed...
...helped prepare her for the peripatetic life she now leads. Her father is an international judge, and the family lived in Sweden, France, Italy and Morocco. She practiced law for 16 years, serving as an associate judge in Sweden and later as a legal officer with the UNHCR in Geneva, but in recent years has focused on art. "To start painting was not an easy choice," she says, "but it was a privilege to immerse myself in something that I loved." The depth of her feelings for Kofi - the marriage is a second one for both - is unmistakable. Last week...