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The newspaper described the procedure as "inconsistent" and "politicised," with "little connection with what is happening in the market for narcotics," and noted that it "also has the United States--the world's largest consumer of illegal narcotics--setting itself up as judge and jury of the poorer countries that have the misfortune to be suppliers."
The coverage is confusing, since, for example, the Washington Post says the meetings simply tabled until next year the issue of whether and how the world's poorer nations would participate, and the New York Times says the industrial nations are required to reduce their emissions of the six main greenhouse gases to 5.2 percent below 1990 levels, while the Los Angeles Times says they're bound to a 6.5 percent reduction.
The wealthy or upper classes were able to build small chapels on their ranches, while the poorer classes built small nichos and altars in their homes, in kitchens or other rooms, for private prayer and devotion.
"The young men aboard [a bus leaving Gaza], with duffel bags and packed falafel lunches, sang Egyptian pop songs, clapped, and celebrated," writes the LAT 's correspondent, who notes the condescension many West Bank Palestinians have for their poorer, more socially conservative Gazan compatriots.
The selection, though, is generally poorer than in Havana.