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Geneva (AFP) - Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have crossed a new threshold, the UN's weather agency said Monday, highlighting the urgency of curbing manmade, climate-altering greenhouse gases. In April, for the first time, the mean monthly CO2 concentration in the atmosphere topped 400 parts per million (ppm) throughout the northern hemisphere, which pollutes more than the south, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. "This should serve as yet another wakeup call about the constantly rising levels of greenhouse gases which are driving climate change," WMO chief Michel Jarraud said in a statement. "If we are to preserve our planet for...

-snip- Below is a partial list of some items that we may want to attend to: * Pass an amendment that takes away lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. The lifetime tenures were intended to insure that these lawyers would be above politics. Instead, they have used their position to foist politically biased, unwanted, unnecessary, and unconstitutional laws upon a resistant American public. Power has routinely been abused, and misused, by this handful of pompous attorneys. * Impose term limits on the members of Congress (as well as the members of the Supreme Court)—no more lengthy free rides at the...

LONDON (AFP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), in an interview with a British newspaper, expressed his fears that "time is running out" for a two-state solution for peace in the Middle East. Speaking to The Guardian at his Ramallah compound in the West Bank, Arafat blamed the double impact of Israel's security barrier and the spread of Jewish settlements for undermining the prospects of a future Palestinian state. "Time is definitely running out for the two-state solution," despite Palestinian commitments going back to the 1980s to accept the West Bank and Gaza Strip (news - web...