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| The Future We Want |
 TWENTY years ago, there was the
Earth Summit. Gathering in Rio
de Janeiro, world leaders agreed
on an ambitious blueprint for a
more secure future. They sought
to balance the imperatives of robust
economic growth and the needs of a
growing population against the ecological
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| POWER WITH
PURPOSE |
 POLITICAL power is
always a double-edged
sword. The more of it you
amass, the more people
expect you to use it to do
big things, and, when you don't,
the more ineffectual you look.
That's the dilemma in which
Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of
Israel finds himself. He avoided
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Giant photo of UK royals unveiled on Thames for diamond jubilee
AFP
LONDON A GIANT photograph of Queen Elizabeth and her family, 100 metres (328 feet) wide and weighing two tonnes, was put up on Friday beside London’s Thames river ahead of celebrations for her diamond jubilee. The 70- metre-high image of the queen, her husband Prince Philip and their children, dating from 35 years ago, was erected on the Sea Containers building to honour her 60 years on the throne — and mask building work going on inside.
The black-and-white photograph shows the queen waving to crowds at her silver jubilee in 1977, and will stay in place near Blackfriars Bridge in central London until the end of June, said a statement from Sea Containers. The photograph took eight abseiling men 45 hours to put up, Sea Containers said, adding it was “the largest ever photograph.”
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