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Work to Salvage Racism Conference
by RAVI NESSMAN, AP Writer
Wednesday, September 5, 2001

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - South African and European officials worked to salvage the world racism conference Tuesday after the United States and Israel walked out over Arab efforts to condemn Israel.Both countries had warned that they would leave if language in a proposed final declaration and program of action singled Israel out for criticism.

World Reacts to U.S. Stem Cell Plan
by EMMA ROSS, AP Medical Writer
Thursday, August 16, 2001

LONDON (AP) - President Bush's decision to fund experiments only on existing stem cell stocks maintained in laboratories didn't entirely please either supporters or opponents of stem cell research in Europe. Reaction was mixed in Asia, where some countries are already going ahead with it while ethical concerns have prompted a more cautious approach in others. Britain's Prolife Alliance, a splinter political party, said it was disappointed in Bush's decision "because the issues at stake here are about absolute respect for early human life, not about compromise."

Bad Moves In The Balkans
by Christopher Lord
Friday, August 17, 2001

There are more Serbs and gypsies who have been killed and forced from their homes by Albanians since the Kosovo war than there were Albanians killed and forced from their homes by Serbs before it. NATO has become a participant in the ethnic conflict in the Balkans, and is in effect now fighting on both sides simultaneously. How is it possible that we have ended up with such an appalling mess?

W. Needs To Take Dad's Advice On The Balkans
by Alan Dowd
Monday, July 30, 2001

Though buried under stories on China this past week, the Balkans are in the headlines again. While Serb police detain Slobodan Milosevic in a Belgrade prison cell, ethnic Albanians with quixotic dreams of carving out a greater Albania are at work in Macedonia. With America leading the way, NATO troops are enforcing an armistice in Bosnia that has held for almost six years - perhaps NATO could do some of the same, if supported adequately, in Macedonia.

When It Comes To The Environment, Think Iceland
by Coleman Kitchin
Friday, July 13, 2001

President G.W. Bush has abandoned the Kyoto global warming treaty, instead of submitting it for ratification. The explanation is that developing countries were not asked to do enough, but the spin is that Europeans, while publicly outraged and flabbergasted, are actually glad to be off the hook.

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