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...public-health authorities. The faster a new microbe can be identified and its transmission slowed, the less likely a small outbreak will turn into an epidemic. Unfortunately, the trend has been in the other direction. "Even in the U.S.," says Thomson Prentice of the World Health Organization in Geneva, "disease-monitoring expertise has been lost, either through cost-cutting or reduced diligence. If some of the edge has been lost in the U.S., just imagine how poorer countries have reacted...
...officials softened their ground rules for a nuclear settlement with North Korea when formal talks resume in Geneva two weeks from today. In Washington, chief U.S. negotiator Robert Gallucci dropped a demand that Pyongyang disclose every shred of information about its past nuclear activities so investigators could figure out whether it has stashed away a warhead, or a half-dozen of them. Instead, he said, the U.S. can attack that question after a basic agreement that would have North Korea drop its nuclear weapons program altogether, in exchange for a modern nuclear reactor and relations with...
...earth's ozone layer is eroding despite the enviro-conscious efforts of industries and consumers to cut back on ozone-eating chemicals, the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization reports. But is the sky falling? "The worst is still six or seven years ahead of us," Rumen Bojkov, special adviser to the agency on ozone issues, told reporters. On the other hand, he said, the ozone level could recover within a half-century. The report, the work of 226 scientists around the globe, explains that international efforts to reduce the use of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, have made a dent but take...
Before formal talks over North Korea's nuclear program resume in Geneva Sept. 23, officials from North Korea and the U.S. will meet in Pyongyang Sept. 10 to discuss establishing diplomatic ties. Those negotiations -- apparently the first ever in North Korea's capital -- could be a major step toward the Communist government's recognition in the West. Still, State Department spokesman Mike McCurry was quick to say that opening liaison offices in Washington and Pyongyang would be "conditional on an overall agreement" on North Korea's nuclear program, and the White House soft-pedaled its announcement today. While the Pongyang...
...North Korean negotiators in Geneva were hammering out a joint statement this evening -- probably an agreement on how to dispose of 8,000 spent fuel rods that North Korea could otherwise use in its alleged nuclear weapons program, a North Korean diplomat said. The pact could set off a domino effect, observes TIME correspondent Jay Peterzell, resulting in a U.S.-funded, $2 billion light-water reactor -- unsuitable for production of fuel for weapons -- for Pyongyang, and the establishment of full diplomatic ties. After tonight, the two sides are expected to break until September. "This buys time and keeps everything...