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GLOBAL
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WARMING A new bill proposed by local lawmakers could make California the first to regulate statewide global warming pollution.
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igher temperatures threaten dangerous consequences: drought, disease, floods, lost ecosystems. And from sweltering heat to rising seas, global warming's effects have already begun. But solutions are in sight. We know where most heattrapping gases come from: power plants and vehicles. And we know how to curb their emissions: modern technologies and stronger laws. NRDC is working to put these fixes in place. By shifting the perception of global warming from abstract threat to pressing reality, and promoting online activism. By pressing businesses to use less energy and build more efficient products. And by fighting for laws that will speed these advances.
Will Prince Akishino (center) and Princess Kiko (center left, in blue)
JAPAN'S MYSTERY OF MAJESTY A succession crisis has led to debate on the monarchy —and the shadowy agency behind it By Jim Frederick Tokyo
Japan
MISTERY
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ate on the afternoon of aug. 16, an imperial motorcade departed from Prince Akishino's royal residence in Tokyo and headed for Aiiku Hospital. The main car car ried Akishino and his wife, Princess Kiko, elegantly attired in a checkered gray suit. As the unhurried motorcade reached the hospital in central Tokyo, where a throng of reporters and onlookers had gathered, Kiko opened the window and offered the crowd what the Japanese media have dubbed her "princess smile": an enigmatic expression that suggests she knows she's fulfilling her royal destiny. Kiko had come to the hospital to prepare for the arrival of her third child, scheduled for birth via a caesarean section on Sept. 6. Three weeks is a long hospital stay for an expectant mother, but Kiko is 39 years old and her doctors have every reason to exercise caution: she is quite possibly carrying the future Emperor of Japan.
WAR
Israel - Lebanon Conflict
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Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.
WAR
Israel - Lebanon Conflict
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sraeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue
Friends and family of an Israeli soldier who was killed July 27, 2006
fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah
Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah
Israelis pray over the site of a rocket attack
fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.Israeli soldiers continue firing tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as