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...walked along a picturesque marble boardwalk at the ocean’s edge, I decided to take a discreet picture of the sea. Within thirty seconds of removing my camera from my backpack, I felt a strong hand on my shoulder. It spun me around so that I was face to face with an angry military officer, who had a large gun slung across his shoulder. He promptly confiscated my camera and questioned me as to what possible reason I could have for being in the country and taking pictures. The soldier even suggested at one point that I could...
...always had the feeling that if late in life someone had tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Walter, we're a little shorthanded this week. Think you could help us on the police beat for a few mornings?" he would have responded, "Boy, oh, boy - when and where do you want me?" (See pictures of Walter Cronkite's life and career...
...year-old professor was arrested by Cambridge police shortly past noon for "exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior," during which he allegedly accused police officers at the scene of being racist. The report said that a woman had called police to the scene after seeing a man "wedging his shoulder in the front door [of Gates' house] as to pry the door open...
...What about her off-the-shoulder dress in the evening? I think most people really liked it. I loved the feeling of it. It was light and ethereal. It seemed to me to capture what that moment must have felt like. I thought the color was beautiful on her. (See pictures of Michelle Obama's Jason Wu dress...
Developed countries like the U.S., which refused to ratify the original treaty, are responsible for most of the CO2 in the atmosphere - and more than a century of industrialization has helped make them rich - which would indicate that they should shoulder the lion's share of future emissions reductions. But fast-growing developing nations like China, which has already passed the U.S. as the world's top carbon emitter, will be responsible for the majority of future emissions, so any global treaty that completely exempted them would be worthless. That debate - or standoff, really - has all but paralyzed global climate...