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...kind of work he did in Geneva is not new territory...
...shadow of melting Alpine glaciers, Professor of Biological Oceanography James J. McCarthy spent 10 days in Geneva hammering out a landmark statement of the dangers that humans face due to global climate change...
...interesting that many of the European newspapers in their lead stories on Tuesday, the day I was returning from Geneva, were calling attention to the potential of environmental refugees. In other words, as people in parts of the tropics and subtropics find that they can no longer sustain their livelihood, the direction to move will be pole-ward, away from the tropics and subtropics. Now you run into some pretty skinny land areas as you go south, so the migration paths of environmental refugees will be northward...
DIED. MARIA JOSE CHARLOTTE HENRIETTA GABRIELLA, 94, Italy's last Queen before the nation became a republic in 1946; in Geneva. As a member of the Savoy dynasty, she ruled alongside her husband, King Umberto II, for a total of 27 days following the abdication of his father, Vittorio Emanuele. After a public referendum vetoed the monarchy--and rejected the facist regime of Benito Mussolini--the couple fled into exile. Gabriella never returned, but her demise may prove to be the catalyst needed to lift a lifetime ban on the male Savoy heirs...
...Because of the secretiveness of the business, experts say it is hard to estimate the trade's size. "Income from the underground traffic in arms is lower than that generated by other sources, in particular gambling and narcotics," says Yeshua Moser Puangsuwan, regional director for the Geneva-based Nonviolence International. But those two highly profitable illegal activities - which earn billions of dollars annually worldwide - are so entwined with arms smuggling they cannot be separated. "If you trade in narcotics, human beings or contraband, you must have access to arms," says Puangsuwan. "It ties them all together...