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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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He designed and built the first random-access LAN that uses fiber-optic connections, long before Ethernet became the standard. ACCOLADES APLENTY Gelenbe has been elected Fellow of the French National Academy of Technologies , the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters , and the science academies of Hungary , Poland , and Turkey.

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