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Nov. 2001:
Workers walk off job at Alcoa alumina plant [Australia]: The walkout follows union claims that emissions from Alcoa's production process is causing health problems in the workforce and in nearby residential areas...Alcoa, which operates three alumina refineries in the state, denies the claims. (Reuters, 30 Nov. 2001)
Greens to protest at 300 Exxon UK filling stations:... more than 300 UK Esso filling stations will be targeted by thousands of protesters this weekend in a bid to urge motorists to boycott the oil giant because of its stance on global warming. (Stefano Ambrogi, Reuters, 30 Nov. 2001)
Mexico City's foul air damages young lungs - study (Reuters, 30 Nov. 2001)
Southern Company campaign contributions outpace industry [USA]: Utility increased campaign giving more than 78% in 2001 -...Southern Company...operates some of the most polluting power plants in the nation. (press release, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, 29 Nov. 2001)
Making companies behave:...where the bottom line is still profit, and the short-term flexibility often needed to achieve it, can the goal of sustainability become integral to business behaviour? ( David Lascelles, at openDemocracy website, 29 Nov. 2001)
Asia is key to saving planet from environmental disaster, experts say (Denis D. Gray, Associated Press, on Environmental News Network site, 28 Nov. 2001)
Candidates would benefit from EU environment laws [Czech Republic & Poland among the chief beneficiaries]: Candidates for European Union membership will benefit financially from adopting the bloc's strict environmental protection rules despite the high costs involved, an EU study showed yesterday..."Between 15,000 and 34,000 cases of premature death across the candidate countries will be avoided through the implementation of EU air directives in 2010," the report said. It said there would be up to 180,000 fewer cases of chronic bronchitis in the region. (Marcin Grajewski, Reuters, 28 Nov. 2001)
press release: Computer Report Card released, Shows U.S. Companies Lagging Far Behind [behind their overseas counterparts in clean production, protecting workers' health and producing environmentally superior products] - National Computer TakeBack Campaign Launched!..."E-waste (electronic waste) is one of the fastest growing and most toxic waste streams -- threatening human health and the environment" (Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, 27 Nov. 2001)
EHS Excellence Can Provide Competitive Advantages says a new GEMI publication: Environment: Value to the Top Line - Examples of how U.S. businesses are utilizing environmental initiatives to gain a competitive advantage within their respective industries are outlined in a new publication, Environment: Value to the Top Line developed by the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI). (Global Environmental Management Initiative, 27 Nov. 2001)
Gem Unions Want Industry Dialogue: World's diamond, gem, jewellery and ornament unions call for global agreements with companies - Talks should cover the full range of issues affecting workers in the industry, the unions said, including health, safety and environment, child labour and employment standards. (ICEM - the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions, 27 Nov. 2001)
Ancient mines cause modern pollution: Toxins produced by mines and smelters thousands of years ago may be taking their toll on the health of people living today in the Middle East, according to researchers. (Alan Mozes, Reuters, 26 Nov. 2001)
Landowners blockade BHP's rat run from Ok Tedi [Papua New Guinea]: A group of women and children landowners have shut down operations at BHP Billitons' Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea. The landowners have staged a sit-down, blocking a bridge leading to the mine site, allowing mine workers to leave but not to enter the site. They have been protesting for two days over legislation apparently designed to absolve BHP of its liability for environmental damage. Damage from the mine is extremely severe and will last for the better part of this century. It is destroying food, fisheries and the forests on which people living along the Fly River (Mineral Policy Institute, 26 Nov. 2001)
Disney magic turns sour for some in Hong Kong: Dredging and dumping to reclaim land for a planned HK$14.1 billion (US$1.8 billion) Walt Disney theme park have disrupted the lives of what is already a shrinking number of fishing families in the territory. The entertainment giant says reclamation is the government's responsibility and says there is no evidence that problems faced by the fishermen can be directly linked to the project. Fishermen and environmentalists, however, say fish stocks have dwindled even further since work began in mid-2000. Some species have disappeared and those hardy enough to survive have stopped spawning. (Tan Ee Lyn, Reuters, 23 Nov. 2001)
Crisis of conscience: Corporations are finding social responsibility boosts the planet and the bottom line - For many years, CSR was an elective rather than part of the core curriculum at business schools. Within corporations, it was often merely a synonym for philanthropy...But that is changing in response to growing protests against globalization, and rising awareness of environmental threats and social and economic disparities around the world. (Peter Sinton, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Nov. 2001)
WTO Doha Conference a Setback for Labour and the Poor:...Dressed up in the language of a "development round" and rhetorical invocations of the commitment to poverty-alleviation is a significant victory for the proponents of corporate globalization...The accession of China must be seen as positive affirmation of the unlimited right of WTO member states to repress workers and elevate union busting to the level of national policy. (International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations [IUF], 21 Nov. 2001)
Dutch Banks Act to Save Tropical Rainforest: Three major Dutch banks [ABN AMRO, Rabobank, and Fortis Bankhave] announced they will restrict loans for palm oil plantation development in Indonesia that results in tropical rainforest destruction. (Susan Wennemyr, SocialFunds.com, 19 Nov. 2001)
International meeting on biodiversity protection recognises critical importance of ancient forests: Only partial progress made on protection of primary forests and forest species (Greenpeace, 18 Nov. 2001)
Environmentalists Attempt to Dam Hydroelectric Project: Canadian energy supplier Fortis, Inc. faces strong opposition from environmentalists over its proposed hydroelectric dam on the Macal River in Belize. (William Baue, SocialFunds.com, 17 Nov. 2001)
Vaal residents claim Iscor poisoned them [South Africa]: Residents of two tiny agricultural plots in Vanderbijlpark, an industrial town in the Vaal Triangle, will square up to iron and steel giant Iscor in the Johannesburg High Court early next week. (Khadija Magardie, Mail & Guardian [South Africa], 16 Nov. 2001)
Getting WTO's Attention Activists, Developing Nations Make Gains: Considering this was a meeting of the World Trade Organization, an institution often vilified as an agent of multinational corporate capitalism, some of the results evoked surprisingly joyful reactions among advocates for the world's oppressed. (Paul Blustein, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2001)
EU Parliament calls for widespread chemicals tests: The European Parliament endorsed yesterday a report calling for widespread testing of chemicals to assess their health and environmental impact despite strong opposition from industry. (Lisa Jucca, Reuters, 16 Nov. 2001)
Court says Italy failed to assess pollution risks: The European Court of Justice found Italy failed to fully identify and monitor bodies of water subject to nitrate pollution from livestock farming. (Reuters, 16 Nov. 2001)
Shell's Phil Watts becomes chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development:...The WBCSD was created in 1992 to provide business input to the Rio Earth Summit, and has since become the leading business advocate on sustainable development issues. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 15 Nov. 2001)
Thirsty China to divert the mighty Yangtze: China has unveiled plans for the largest water water-diversion in its history and possibly one of the world's most expensive at $60.4 billion. The project will channel water from the country's longest river, the Yangtze, to three rivers in the north, the Yellow, Huai and Hai, whose basins are running dry...Environmental experts say the new project could cause widespread corruption, human hardship and environmental damage, and could dry up the Yangtze in 30 years...The potential benefits of the project outweigh the downside environmentalists fear, Zhang told Reuters...China is also playing down the burden facing several hundred thousand people due to be moved for the 1,246 km (780-mile) middle route. (CNN, 15 Nov. 2001)
Environmental Issues Make Significant Progress At Key Trade Talks [WTO meeting in Doha]: For the first time, trade ministers from over 140 countries have firmly accepted that globalization of trade and the reduction of trade barriers must take into account environmental issues. (United Nations Environment Programme, 15 Nov. 2001)
Rising Sea Level Forcing Evacuation of Island Country: The leaders of Tuvalu--a tiny island country in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia--have conceded defeat in their battle with the rising sea, announcing that they will abandon their homeland. (Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, 15 Nov. 2001)
Satellite data confirms warming of Earth's climate (Environmental News Network, 14 Nov. 2001)
Greenpeace exposes scandal of African rainforest destruction and demands governments to act now: Undercover investigations by Greenpeace have discovered that wood products coming from logging companies operating in a destructive and illegal way in West Africa are flooding European ports. These investigations have recently uncovered logs and timber from two companies in particular, which have some of the worst environmental and human rights records of any logging company in the world. These two companies, the Oriental Timber Corporation (OTC) and Société Forestère Hazim (SFH), are actively logging in Liberia and Cameroon respectively. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) recently reported OTC's involvement in illegal arms-smuggling to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in neighbouring war-torn Sierra Leone. SFH has been found guilty for repeatedly logging outside legally defined areas by the Cameroon government, and has been involved in serious social conflicts with forest dwelling communities there. Both companies have repeatedly operated with flagrant disregard for national forestry law, and for the social and environmental impact of their operations. (Greenpeace, 14 Nov. 2001)
Triumph for world trade talks:...Developing countries have the right to produce drugs cheaply in the case of a medical emergency...WTO members have accepted EU demands that investment, competition and environment rules be put on the agenda. (Steve Schifferes, BBC News, 14 Nov. 2001)
Carbon Trading Market Expands to Chicago, Mexico City:...The city of Chicago and Mexico City are joining the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a voluntary market for trading emissions of greenhouse gases which are linked to global warming. (Environment News Service, 13 Nov. 2001)
Arab environmentalists call for adoption of Earth Charter (Ruba Saqr, Jordan Times, 13 Nov. 2001)
60,000 plant species may vanish by 2025 threatening ecosystem (Independent [Bangladesh], 13 Nov. 2001)
Starbucks says program will reward responsible suppliers: Starbucks Coffee on Monday unveiled a plan to pay coffee suppliers up to 10 cents more per pound if they protect the environment and abide by local minimum wage and worker safety laws. (Allison Linn, Associated Press, 12 Nov. 2001)
Shell called negligent in Brazil toxic waste case: The Public Ministry of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo says a subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch group Royal Dutch/Shell was negligent in the exposure of at least 156 people to toxic pesticides...Shell officials reached by Reuters last week dismissed the report as baseless. (Sharon Cohen, Reuters, 12 Nov. 2001)
Mexican environmentalists vow to keep on fighting: Two Mexican peasant ecologists freed from jail this week by a presidential pardon vowed on the weekend to continue their fight to protect the environment despite death threats from powerful interest groups. (Elizabeth Fullerton, Reuters, 12 Nov. 2001)
FACTBOX - What was agreed in Marrakesh? [explanation of the agreement on rules governing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change] (Reuters, 12 Nov. 2001)
Exxon Valdez ruling frustrates Alaska plaintiffs: Plaintiffs in the 12-year court battle over the nation's worst oil spill say they are frustrated that the case will continue to drag on now that an appeals court has struck down the landmark $5 billion punitive fine assessed for the Exxon Valdez oil disaster. (Yereth Rosen, Reuters, 12 Nov. 2001)
Trade and Environment: What Europe really wants and why - The European Union is among the most active supporters of a positive "environment" and "sustainable development" agenda in WTO. (European Union, 11 Nov. 2001)
Greening Doha : the EU's Trade and Environment Agenda (speech by European Union Commissioner Pascal Lamy, delivered to the Greenpeace 'Safe Trade' Seminar, 11 Nov. 2001)
'Historic' deal saves Kyoto, but America stays outside (Anthony Browne, Observer [UK], 11 Nov. 2001)
UN climate treaty salvaged:...The draft compromise gave enormous concessions on forestry demanded by Russia...Environmentalists had angrily opposed this, warning that polluting countries could simply buy cheap Russian carbon quotas to meet their targets rather than reduce their greenhouse gases. (Agence France-Presse, in Daily Star [Bangladesh], 11 Nov. 2001)
Asia's economic problems bad news for environment: Cleaner air, water take second place to dealing with the financial crisis - Research by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank and United Nations agencies found almost every Asian government has cut spending for environmental protection, and some tend to turn a blind eye to violations of pollution standards, illegal logging and overfishing. Cleaner technologies are not being introduced. (Associated Press, in Baltimore Sun [Maryland, USA], 11 Nov. 2001)
India criticizes WTO over ignoring needs of poor countries: India sharply criticized the World Trade Organization here on Saturday, accusing it of ignoring the needs of poor countries and badgering them to take positions against their will...Among the new issues being considered are proposed moves to link the protection of the environment and workers' rights to trade pacts, a position vigorously advocated by the European Union. Maran [Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Murasoli Maran] reiterated that poor countries firmly reject any such connections, seeing in them a transparent bid by the West to use alleged abuses of labour and the environment as pretexts for blocking exports from the developing world. (Dawn [Pakistan], 11 Nov. 2001)
50 injured as blast sparks 'chemical rain' [Shanghai, China]: More than 50 people were injured when a "rain of chemical liquid" fell on them on Tuesday evening following a furnace blast in a chemical factory on Huajin Road in the city's southwest Xuhui District. (Shanghai Daily, 11 Nov. 2001)
Mexico frees two jailed environmentalists: Mexican President Vicente Fox freed two prominent environmentalists from prison yesterday amid widespread allegations that they had been tortured into signing false confessions on bogus charges. Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera had led protests against illegal logging activities in the southern state of Guerrero before they were jailed in May 1999 on weapons and drugs offenses. Both men say they only confessed after being tortured for several days and claim they were being punished for their attempts to defend the forests of the Sierra Madre mountain range from rapacious logging. (Kieran Murray, Reuters, 9 Nov. 2001)
Environmental Issues At The Doha Wto Trade Talks: A successful outcome in Doha would be the launch of a new trade round that builds mutually supportive trade and environment policies - "Environmental issues, seen by many as a controversial topic, must not be sidelined at the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference that begins today in Doha, Qatar," said Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). (United Nations Environment Programme, 9 Nov. 2001)
Exxon Valdez appeals ruling stuns Alaskans: Exxon Mobil Corp.'s reprieve this week from a $5 billion punitive fine stunned and angered Alaskans who had sued the energy giant for punitive damages from the 1989 Valdez oil spill disaster (Yereth Rosen, Reuters, 9 Nov. 2001)
BP introduces anti-smog gasoline in Washington state: BP Plc, the British oil giant, introduced a lower-sulfur gasoline in Washington state yesterday designed to fight air pollution. BP said the newly formulated fuel is expected to reduce vehicles' nitrous oxide emissions by about 4 percent. (Reuters, 9 Nov. 2001)
Mexico: Mexican Environmentalists Released - Groups Call for Perpetrators of Abuses to be Brought to Justice: Amnesty International and Sierra Club believe that the arrest and conviction of the two environmentalists stem solely from their efforts to stop the rampant logging in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico. (Amnesty International USA and Sierra Club, 8 Nov. 2001)
Climate Change: Billions Across The Tropics Face Hunger And Starvation As Big Drop In Crop Yields Forecast -...Harvests of some of the world's most important food crops could fall by as much as a third in some crucial parts of the planet as a result of climate change, scientists are warning. The decline comes at a time when there is an urgent need to raise yields to feed as growing, global, population. (United Nations Environment Programme, 8 Nov. 2001)
CLIMATE CHANGE: Ministers Clear Important Hurdle On Kyoto Compliance (UN Wire, 8 Nov. 2001)
Report cites dangerous air on US - Mexico border: Pollution from assembly plants on the U.S.-Mexico border, coupled with desert dust, has millions of people on both sides of the Rio Grande breathing particles linked to heart and lung disease, a study soon to be released by U.S. and Mexican environmental agencies shows. (Deborah Tedford, Reuters, 8 Nov. 2001)
Earth on edge of a precipice - UN report: The human race is plundering Earth at an unsustainable rate, but the growing power of women over their own futures could save the planet from destruction, the United Nations said yesterday...The report, "Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental Change", said bluntly more people were using more resources more intensively than ever before. (Jeremy Lovell, Reuters, 8 Nov. 2001)
- {···español} El estado de la población mundial 2001
- {···français} L’état de la population mondiale 2001
US court rules $5 bln Exxon Valdez award excessive: A federal appeals court yesterday overturned a $5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the worst oil spill in U.S. history - the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster - and ordered a district court to set a new, lower amount (Andrew Quinn, Reuters, 8 Nov. 2001)
Exxon Corp. ordered to pay $225,000 fine: Exxon Mobil Corp. was ordered to pay $225,000, the largest fine ever handed down by Texas' oil-industry regulators, for a pipeline blast last year in West Texas that killed a local police officer. (Calgary Herald [Canada], 7 Nov. 2001)
Critics of Kyoto talks say air now a commodity:...Sounding a more favourable note, Mark Kenber of the World Wildlife Fund said emission trading was not the evil capitalistic scheme presented by some. "If emission trading delivers what you want it to deliver one would be in favour, but if it does not do that and expands the loopholes that exist, we would be against it," he said at a workshop on the sidelines of the conference. Speaking at a news conference, the NGOs' representatives gathered under a broad-based coalition called Climate Justice insisted on the need for big corporations to effectively adhere to guidelines that would protect the environment. "Only 122 companies in the world are responsible for 80 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions," said Amit Srivastava, of San Francisco-based CorpWatch. "And just four private global oil corporations produce 10 percent of all CO2 emissions". (Gilles Trequesser, Reuters, 6 Nov. 2001)
GMO crops - here to stay or gone with the wind? Consumer pressure will not force North and South American farmers to abandon genetically modified crops but it could blight the development of a new generation promising many medical or nutritional benefits. (Peter Bohan, Reuters, 6 Nov. 2001)
UNEP Manual for the International Year of Ecotourism (United Nations Environment Programme, 5 Nov. 2001)
- The Christian Aid book and report include sections on the following subjects:
- "Nine ways in which multinationals can harm poor people"
- Why self-regulation & voluntary codes of conduct are not enough
- Why current international standards are inadequate
- Proposal for a new Global Regulatory Authority, to establish & enforce human rights, labour & environmental standards in transnational business (including specific functions that such a body should perform)
Illinois scrap smelter to shut doors-trade sources [USA]: Chemetco Inc., a privately held secondary copper refiner, is planning to close its smelter in East Hartford, Illinois and file for Chapter 11, according to market sources...Another source familiar with the situation said she understood that Chemetco's problems with toxic-waste dumping was it's ultimate undoing. In October last year, a federal judge fined Chemetco $3.8 million for installing a secret pipe and illegally dumping hazardous metal-filled water into a local creek for a decade. (Carole Vaporean, Reuters, 5 Nov. 2001)
US firms said to need govt plan on global warming: U.S. companies investing billions of dollars to reduce pollution emissions could be at a competitive disadvantage in the future if the government does not come up with a formal plan to fight global warming, environmentalists warned last week. (Christopher Doering, Reuters, 5 Nov. 2001)
Big firms buy pollution rights ahead of Kyoto: Big firms are buying permits to pollute from countries that are installing clean energy, hoping to profit from an "emissions trading" scheme that has yet to be created, the World Bank said last week. (Robin Pomeroy, Reuters, 5 Nov. 2001)
Canada blasts greens for attacking Kyoto stance: Canada, blasting green groups for criticizing its approach to a new round of global warming talks, denied environmentalists' accusations last week that Ottawa wanted to back away from a legally binding treaty to cut the emission of greenhouse gases. (David Ljunggren, Reuters, 5 Nov. 2001)
Canada says Kyoto doesn't need legal sanctions: Canada's top official at global warming talks said last week it did not matter whether sanctions for countries that fail to comply with the Kyoto pact were made legally binding, an issue green groups say is key. (Robin Pomeroy, Reuters, 5 Nov. 2001)
Japan set to ratify Kyoto climate pact without US (Teruaki Ueno, Reuters, 5 Nov. 2001)
New centre shows Kenya's industries how to cut pollution: The Kenya National Cleaner Production Centre demonstrates how smart management can cut industrial waste and pollution. UNDP, the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) joined with the Kenya Research and Development Institute last year to set up the centre, officially launched in Nairobi recently. (United Nations Development Programme, 2 Nov. 2001)
Insurers see more disasters due to climate change: Global warming will cause a massive increase in weather-related disasters such as hurricanes in coming decades, major insurance companies said yesterday. Big insurers and banks like Swiss Re, Munich Re and UBS told delegates at a United Nations climate change conference yesterday that they had already seen a huge increase in the number of floods and hurricanes. (Reuters, 2 Nov. 2001)
Dead cellphones reborn after EU order to recycle:...Europe now has a plan to encourage the recycling of the phones, for both economic and environmental reasons, with new European Union recycling regulation coming into force...After a debate between EU agencies, responsibility will likely fall on equipment makers to take care of their own products (Anna Peltola, Reuters, 2 Nov. 2001)
Where giants may tread, rumblings will follow: The destructive - and dangerous - behaviour of Australian mining companies overseas should be controlled by law, writes Geoff Evans. (Geoff Evans, Director of the Mineral Policy Institute, in Sydney Morning Herald, 2 Nov. 2001)
ENVIRONMENT-PAKISTAN: New Funds Boost Green Action Plans [42.78 million U.S. dollar agreement between the Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)] (Muddassir Rizvi, Inter Press Service, 1 Nov. 2001)
WTO and the Fate of the World's Forests:...Global forestry corporations, like Boise Cascade, International Paper, Mead, and Weyerhaeuser, all would like expanded WTO rules to ensure unfettered access to forest resources and consumer markets. They use industry groups, like the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA), to lobby Washington and, in essence, help write the US position on trade and shape the WTO agenda on forest issues...The new global corporate regime is designed to accelerate industrial logging for export, to concentrate corporate control over forest resources, and to reduce protections for forest ecosystems and forest peoples. (Victor Menotti, Program Director of the International Forum on Globalization, for CorpWatch, 1 Nov. 2001)
The WTO, Forests and the Spirit of Rio:...Since its inception, the WTO has undermined the agreements reached in Rio by replacing the environmental agenda with the corporate push for indiscriminate international trade...[I]n the tropics...increased trade of all sorts of goods -- ranging from logs to aluminum, from shrimp to palm oil to soya beans -- results in forest destruction and the impoverishment of local communities. (Ricardo Carrere, International Coordinator of the World Rainforest Movement, for CorpWatch, 1 Nov. 2001)
Interview with Mark Wade, Shell Sustainable Development Group -...How is Shell going about becoming a truly sustainability-supporting company?...What are institutional investors asking for from Shell today that they didn’t ask for 5 years ago? (Ethical Corporation Magazine, 1 Nov. 2001)
new book: Everybody's Business: Managing risks and opportunities in today's global society - Issues which until now have been 'soft' for business, such as environment, diversity and human rights - are now hard; hard to ignore, hard to manage and very hard to control if they go wrong (David Grayson & Adrian Hodges, Nov. 2001)
Coastal communities hit hard by fishing industry [Indonesia]: Communities who depend upon coastal resources for their livelihoods are being pushed aside - sometimes by violent means - as entrepreneurs rush to maximise profits from the seas. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2001)
The shrimp industry [Indonesia]: The shrimp industry, with its use of antibiotics and high levels of chemicals, has proven particularly harmful to coastal communities in many countries, including Indonesia...Coastal land rights held by local communities have been swept aside (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2001)
Sand mining destroys community resources [Indonesia]: The mining of coastal sands for export is blighting the livelihoods of small-scale fisherfolk in Riau. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2001)
Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) conference [international conference] - Log export ban [Indonesia] (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2001)
FSC teak certification suspended [Indonesia]: A decision to suspend the certification of teak plantations in Java has highlighted major problems with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) eco-labelling scheme in Indonesia. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2001)
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