U.S. Pledges Billions for Climate Study at Earth Summit
The United States unveils a 1.4 billion fund to monitor climate change and begins plans to catalog the world’s plant and animal species. William Reilly touts progress toward ratifying a global warming treaty despite opposition to biodiversity safeguards. Leaders gather in Rio with over 110 heads of state en route to final documents on Agenda 21 and forestry.
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Brazil
United States
William Reilly
U.S
Environmental Protection Agency
Rio
Li Peng
China
Turkey
Estonia
Guatemala
Cape Verde
Bush
Reilly
Navy officers receive mandatory sensitivity training
Fifty one sailors and a woman attended a daylong seminar at the Navy’s Senior Enlisted Academy in Newport. The Pentagon’s first such program aims to halt sexual harassment, with 16 case studies and guidance on rights, responsibilities, and reporting.
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Navy
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Labor filibuster fight ends in narrow setback in Senate
Organized labor's drive to shield strikers from permanent replacements failed by five votes as 55-41 Senate tally left the bill short of the 60 vote threshold. Despite AFL-CIO concessions, no end to the Republican talkathon. Two key supporters were away at the Earth Summit, delaying further action.
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Afl-Cio
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Colorado
al Gore
Tennessee
Rio de Janeiro
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Utah
Jesse Helms
North Carolina
Planets May Orbit Seven Stars in Milky Way Krakow
NASA researchers announce a new method to detect planets by infrared disk emissions and report nine stars with possible orbiting bodies. They identify GK Tauri as likely hosting a brown dwarf or planets in Taurus Auriga, a star forming region about 450 light years away.
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Milky Way
Pasadena
Calif
Solar
Earth
Kenneth Marsh
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Marsh
Michael Mahoney
David Black
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Houston
Mahoney
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