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...equally self-conscious about its prestige. The reigning Qianlong emperor, as part of the process of expanding and consolidating China's borders, had also restricted trade with the Western powers to a small perimeter outside the city walls of Canton. The British chafed at this limitation, and sought a wider zone of commercial operations. They also sought, in vain, to pressure the Chinese into accepting Western norms of law, both with respect to the law of the sea and to protection of property and persons...
...century, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently reported, melting ice caps could raise global sea levels by as much as 88 cm. But last week the Atlantic Ocean seemed to be just growing wider. After U.S. President George W. Bush bluntly rejected any American role in the gargantuan, decade-long effort to forge an international agreement to slow global warming, advocates of the Kyoto Protocol in Europe reacted with howls of protest and betrayal...
...Olympic ice is wider and longer with demensions of 200-by-100. Non-Olympic rinks vary in size but, like Duluth's, most are about...
...little like Galileo on yet another vain mission to convince the clergy that the sun is the center of our universe. The German chancellor met President George W. Bush Thursday to discuss, among other things, global warming - a topic on which the U.S. leader is seen in the wider world as something of a flat-earther. And he reported after the meeting that they'd held a candid discussion but failed to agree over President Bush's decision to back out of the Kyoto Accord on climate change endorsed last year by President Clinton. Clinton, of course, had avoided submitting...
...Indeed, Arafat may determine that he has little to gain from allowing the situation to stabilize in the absence of any framework for pursuing his coveted state, and may even be tempted to encourage an escalation of violence in the hope that it may force Arab states and the wider international community to put more pressure on Israel. And for the Israelis, domestic political concerns will prompt Sharon to raise the level of retaliation. In other words, both sides may be squaring off for a long, hot summer...