G8 summit: Food crisis, feasts and folding a kimono
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Here’s a question some critics have been asking: Does the world even need an organization like the Group of Eight, that exclusive club of heads of government or heads of state of several of the world’s leading, industrialized nations – but not including China, India or Brazil – that meets each year to talk about the world’s problems, pledges to do something about them – and then promptly forgets about those promises? The gang is meeting in Japan this week; its latest confab got under way yesterday in Toyako, on the northern-Japanese island of Hokkaido. The G8′s member states include Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Japan, the United States, Canada and Russia. This year, host country Japan has invited leaders from Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea and South Africa to take part in “outreach” or “major economies” discussion sessions along with the hallowed Eight. This week’s G8 powwow has its own Wesbite. Among other features, it offers a “For Kids” section and, in keeping with the meeting’s eco-conscious theme that even George W. Bush’s handlers have made their man begrudgingly embrace, on its home page, the Website informs visitors: “The volume of the image files is controlled to reduce energy consumption.”
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