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With no previous mediation experience, Feinberg settled Agent Orange--a decade-long case pitting veterans against Dow Chemical, Monsanto and the U.S. government over the use of a toxic defoliant in Vietnam--in six weeks. Soon other judges and lawyers were asking him to step between warring parties, and in...
SOUTH AFRICA Development in Deadlock At least 20,000 people from 193 countries were in Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The summit agreed to restore most of the world's major fisheries to commercial health by 2015 by reducing catches to a level that can be maintained...
The Pontal had already been so rapaciously deforested that less than 2% of its native tree cover remained. So when the landless settled next to the remnants of forest, Claudio feared they would chop down the trees for fuel and lumber and destroy animal populations through hunting. Instead, when he...
Nature can take some blame for the tribulations of river life in China, but most goes to Mao Zedong. The devastation wrought upon this part of the country over the past 10 years owes much to the thoughtless policies of communist China's original Chairman, who was born in a...
SETTLED. NIXON SISTERS' LAWSUIT, over how to spend an almost $20 million bequest to the presidential library of their father Richard M. Nixon. Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower did not speak for years because of the dispute over the money, but a court-ordered mediation resulted in an...