Word: protocols
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...According to Sands, members of the Bush administration have divided international treaties that the U.S. had helped to create into ¨good and bad.” The World Trade Organization and other monetary and patent agreements are “good.” The Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court and certain war conventions are “bad”— deemed “threats to American sovereignty” by organizations like the New American Century. “For these people,” he said, “9/11...
...erase the sexism from Article 57 (to apply post-Felipe), the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won't object, and polls show that - republicans apart - most Spaniards would welcome a Queen. But what if, one fine day, a future Queen Leonor announced she wanted to marry a woman? The protocol boggles, but no problem. In Spain today that's fine, too. Even for someone like me, raised in a democracy and resident here for the past 15 years, it's hard to digest the speed and size of the changes wrought in Spain since Franco died. When I first visited...
...this practical cohabitation brings about a catalog of ethical puzzles. What is the proper protocol in such circumstances? Is it appropriate to ask your neighbors to turn down the music, or stop having loud sex against the wall? Do you complain, or do you put on your headphones, crank up your iTunes and sulk? Is it polite to giggle about your neighbors’ private lives with your friends in the dining hall (and then write about it in the student newspaper)? At what point are you no longer a neighbor, but a voyeur...
...Health (P.I.H.), did in Haiti--the poorest, most disease-ridden country in the western hemisphere--is build a showcase public-health system that each year delivers high-quality medical care to 1.3 million peasant farmers, about one-sixth the country's population. There he also helped rewrite the protocol for treating multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis and pioneered several medical practices at the time deemed hopelessly quixotic--such as giving impoverished AIDS patients first-line antiretroviral drugs (ARVs)--that have since been widely adopted...
...outreach and communications for the center, wrote in an e-mail. During his political career as a congressman and vice-president, Gore played a major role in cleaning toxic waste sites and encouraging businesses to adopt environmentally friendly technology. As vice president, Gore was instrumental in drafting the Kyoto Protocol, a global initiative designed to limit carbon wastes. Gore is currently the chairman of Generation Investment, a London-based investment firm with a focus on environmentally responsible firms. He also speaks throughout the country on the consequences of environmental risks, and has been a critic of what he sees...