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1. On January 21st the New York Times ran a story alleging that Mr. McCain had a too-close-for-comfort relationship with a female lobbyist.
2. Mr. Kim (Kim Jong Il) is not only party leader, he is also military boss. The shoot-while-you-talk strategy is deliberate.
3.Theepisodethrewmeintoawhat-is-the-world-coming-to mood, a state I am increasingly prone to these days.
4. This region provides a splendid setting for an away-from-it-all holiday for all the family.
5. Managers sometimes moan that their people aren't interested in financial quotations or quality statistics or productivity measures; they are just a time-for-lunch bunch.
6. Proportional representation is needed to force parties to work together and reduce the winner-takes-all confrontation which alienates the public.
7. The I-told-you-so-brigade will be reveling in the news that the three-and-a-quarter-year marriage between Oasis's hell raising front man Liam Gallagher and actress Patsy Kensit now seems to be over, even if it has been on the cards for some time.
8. There is no one-size-fits-all way to reduce stress.
9. His bet-you-can't-afford-me jacket was draped over the back of his chair.
10. He gave a grunt which in itself was a masterpiece of diplomacy, conveying a you-must-be-out-of-your-mind message.
11. How could he afford such an expensive car? That won-it-in-the-lottery story had sounded pretty feeble.
12. He responded with the this-is-no-laughing-matter-these-are-my-feelings-you-are-cropping-on grimace he'd learned from his daughter.
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The Role of the UN
The UN today is both more and less than its founders anticipated. It is less because, from the close of World War II to the end of the 1980s, the rivalry between the United States and the USSR exposed the weakness of great-power unanimity in matters of peace and security. It is more because the rapid breakup of colonial empires from the 1940s to the 1970s created a void in the structure of international relations that the UN, in many areas, was able to fill.
Even during the period of superpower rivalry, the UN helped ease East-West tensions. Through its peacekeeping operations, for example, it was able to insulate certain areas of tension from direct great-power intervention. The UN also established several committees on disarmament and was involved in negotiating treaties to ban nuclear weapons in outer space and the development of biological weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency has helped to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons by inspecting nuclear installations to monitor their use. Major arms-control measures, however, such as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963), the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968), the Strategic Arms Limitation talks (SALT) of 1972 and 1979, and the Strategic Arms Reduction treaties (START) of 1991 and 1993 were achieved through direct negotiations between the super powers.
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Beyond providing peacekeeping forces, the UN has played a wider role in the transition to statehood in a few critical areas. It has been a major forum through which newly independent states have begun to participate in international relations, giving them opportunities to represent their interests outside their immediate regions, to join coalitions of nations with similar interests, and to escape the limited relationships of their earlier colonial connections. One problem facing the UN today is the feeling in some Western nations that it has become an instrument of the developing countries and thus is no longer a viable forum for fruitful negotiations.
The United Nations is not a world government; rather, it is a very flexible instrument through which nations can cooperate to solve their mutual problems. Whether they do cooperate and use the UN creatively depends on how both their governments and their peoples view relations with others and how they envision their place in the future of humankind.
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BNFL under Fire on Waste Storage
Safety experts have expressed alarm at significant changes to nuclear waste handling procedures being introduced by British Nuclear Fuels. The revisions include plans for a series of unmanned radioactive waste dumps up and down the country for debris from its ageing power stations.
It has also emerged that the company is scaling back plans to build protective shells around nuclear reactor buildings — which are to be left for periods of up to 135 years after closure — and that reactors and waste stores are to be unmanned and monitored from a central point.
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MPs, environmental campaigners and senior industry safety experts say the plans would expose communities to danger and threaten the environment.
The dumps will be established on the sites of BNFL's 11 Magnox power stations — built from the Fifties onwards around the coast of Britain — which are scheduled to close over the next 20 years. They will take "intermediate level" radioactive waste (ILW) — the second most perilous category, which includes items such as contaminated fuel casings, sludges, resins and discarded reactor equipment.
They are expected to remain in place for at least 40 to 50 years and potentially a lot longer, since there are no plans for a permanent store for the nation's nuclear waste. A Green Paper on what to do next, originally planned for the summer, is now expected to be published at the end of October.
According to BNFL, the waste will be put in concrete and placed in purpose-built or modified buildings. A spokesman said: "A separate company whose raison d'etre is long-term storage is better placed to deal with it, but this is not our main business."
Nuclear safety expert John Large told The Observer, "What is happening is extremely worrying. It is one thing having a working nuclear power station, but it is quite another to store waste for long periods on sites not originally designed for it."
Large also said he had serious concerns about proposals to scale back on protective cladding for reactors, which BNFL plans to leave for around 100 years after they are shut down.
BNFL has also said it no longer plans to use high durability cladding materials, but would use standard materials to reinforce existing buildings and re-clad where necessary. Large said that would weaken the protection of the reactor cores.
David Chaytor, MP for Bury North, said: "No-staffing at these sites is unacceptable."
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Ethanol and Water
Officials in Tampa, Florida, got a surprise recently when a local firm building the state's first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400,000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water. The request by Envirofuels would make the facility one of the city's top ten water consumers overnight, and the company plans to double its size. Florida is suffering from a prolonged drought. Rivers and lakes are at record lows and residents wonder where the extra water will come from.
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They are not alone. A backlash against the federally financed biofuels boom is growing around the country, and "water could be the Achilles heel" of ethanol, said a report by the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
The number of ethanol factories has almost tripled in the past eight years from 50 to about 140. A further 60 or so are under construction. In 2007 President George Bush signed legislation requiring a fivefold increase in biofuels production, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.
This is controversial for several reasons. There are doubts about how green ethanol really is (some say the production process uses almost as much energy as it produces). Some argue that using farmland for ethanol pushes up food prices internationally (world wheat prices rose 25 per cent this week alone, perhaps as a side-effect of America's ethanol program). But one of the least-known but biggest worries is ethanol's extravagant use of water.
A typical ethanol factory producing 50m gallons of biofuels a year needs about 500 gallons of water a minute. Most of that goes into the boiling and cooling process, which is similar to making beer. Some water is lost through evaporation in the cooling tower and in waste discharge.
The good news is that ethanol plants are becoming more efficient. They now use about half as much water per gallon of ethanol as they did a decade ago. New technology might be able to halve the amount of water again, says Mike Fatigati, vice president of Delta-T Corp, a Virginia company which has designed a system that does not discharge any waste water. But others are skeptical. Perhaps ethanol just isn't as bio-friendly as it looks.
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