any other country, and more than Japan and all 15 nations of the EU combined. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver *Jeremy Symons, a former whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said that suppression of the report for four months was a further example of the White House trying to bury the threat of climate change. *Senior climatologists, however, believe that their verdicts could prove the catalyst in forcing Bush to accept climate change as a real and happening phenomenon. They also hope it will convince the United States to sign up to global treaties to reduce the rate of climatic change. *Among those scientists present at the White House talks were Professor John Schellnhuber, former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK's leading group of climate scientists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He said that the
Lords. The High Court of Justiciary is the supreme criminal court. Both courts are housed at Parliament House, in Edinburgh, which was the home of the pre-Union Parliament of Scotland. The sheriff court is the main criminal and civil court. There are 49 sheriff courts throughout the country. District courts were introduced in 1975 for minor offences. The Court of the Lord Lyon regulates heraldry. The Scots legal system is unique in having three possible verdicts for a criminal trial: "guilty", "not guilty" and "not proven". Both "not guilty" and "not proven" result in an acquittal with no possibility of retrial. An additional, minor but interesting, point is that Scots juries consist of fifteen not twelve jurors as is more common in English-speaking countries. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) manages the prisons in Scotland which contain between them over 7,500 prisoners
intercultural communication between East and West. Such implied intertextuality seems to relegate Romania to the status of a former colony. The final strong images and verdicts on Romania from both narratives seem to corroborate the fact that they belong to what Cronin (2000, p. 37) calls `ocular travels', i.e. travels in which the authors' persuasive discourse makes the home readers `take for granted what they are told'.
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