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...known that he is so perturbed by the potential dangers of nanotechnology - the young science that could one day make such creatures possible - and worries that it could reduce the planet to a lifeless "gray goo," that in the next couple of months he will convene a nanotech summit at his country residence, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire. But while Prince Charles ponders doomsday scenarios, millions of people already use the products of nanotech research every day without even knowing it. Consumers of Sunsorb brand sunscreen have nanotech to thank for that product's invisible protection against ultraviolet rays...
...Professional diplomats will say a summit is too ambitious. Relationships are built slowly, carefully. Groundwork must be done at the ministerial level. Diplomats are cautious, and they don't like to stage a summit unless a deal has been precooked. Fine, but a beginning must be made. The ultimate deal could be something as modest as a vague statement of mutual purpose: "We, the undersigned, agree that Iraq should continue to exist within its current borders with a federal government that represents all existing ethnic and religious interests." Or it could be as ambitious as the Afghanistan process, or even...
...China, as you know, we are receiving more and more reports of cases and it doesn’t appear it has peaked,” David Heymann, chief of communicable diseases for WHO, told reporters during a summit in Bangkok yesterday...
Despite their promising nature, the accords were followed by eruptions of violence in both areas that culminated in the collapse of the Camp David summit in 2000 and the outbreak of the Intifada shortly thereafter...
...Baghdad, a key Chalabi ally, Mohammed Moshen al-Zubeidi, last week proclaimed himself governor, and announced that one of his underlings would represent Iraq next week at an Opec summit. But while al-Zubeidi was holding press conferences and meeting various locals (on the strength, it appears, of touting his connections with the American forces), the U.S. administrator for Baghdad, Barbara Bodine, announced that Washington did not recognize Zubeidi's authority, and even Chalabi's spokesman stressed that the self-styled governor was acting without INC authority...