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Fishburne is currently chairman of the United States Fund for UNICEF’s campaign against HIV/AIDS and has traveled to Africa numerous times to visit support centers and spread awareness about the illness among local youth...
...Your first sight of Machu Picchu comes after you've passed the final checkpoint-the Sun Gate and its near-vertical flight of 50 stone steps. Spread before you, in the distance, is Machu Picchu's labyrinth of temples, terraces and plazas. This is where the descent into the ancient city begins-and, with luck, you will have arrived shortly before the last tourist bus departs (at 5:30 p.m.). That means you could have this astonishing, spiritual haunt virtually to yourself, in conditions of near silence. Now how's that for a sense of arrival...
...Australia produces 550 million tons of greenhouse gases a year. That's a mere 1.5% of world emissions. Australia on its own can have little impact on global warming. But policymakers believe that if the nation can develop a successful local carbon-trading regime, it will become easier to spread such institutions to the rest of the world. Largely because of reduced land clearing, Australia-which did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol-should meet an agreed target (limiting annual emissions from 2008-12 to 108% of 1990 levels). But the challenge beyond then could be formidable, and few people have...
...spread the ball around pretty well, and we had five guys in double digits,” Harvard coach Christopher Ridolfi said. “And we played well in the first game—steady—and we were able to come away with...
Alaa, Raya and others in Stockholm now wonder when they will be able to return. Raya, who spread sheets over her furniture to keep off the dust, now says that she doubts she will see her Baghdad home for several years. She plans to learn Swedish and practice as a gynecologist. For his part, Alaa, hunched over a borrowed computer in his small apartment, spends hours a day looking at digital photographs of his small son playing on his bed back in Iraq. Alaa hopes to get his Swedish residence papers sometime this year, allowing his wife and 1-year...