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STOCKHOLM, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), with headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, has been named the 2012 Stockholm
By Haugland, John Late last year, by Lake Victoria's north shore in Kampala, Uganda, the 53 member states of the Commonwealth of Nations signed an agreement that lays out a shared understanding of climate change and the policies needed to address it (http:// www.thecommonwealth.org/document/34293/35144/ 173014/ climateactionplan.htm).
What's it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone who lives in a spot you may want to visit. Anastasia Ashman, 43, is a writer and multimedia producer in Istanbul, Turkey, where she has lived for five years.
By Cheryl Pellerin President Bush has urged the Senate to approve U.S. participation in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea "to advance U.S. interests in the world's oceans." To date, 153 parties have signed on to the convention, which entered into force in 1994.
