1.   Richer countries must do more to cut back carbon emissions.

2.   There is little that one country can do if another fails to abide by the rules.

3.   The Population Council report found that while most countries have done extensive research on women as mothers, men as fathers have been virtually invisible to researchers.

4.   Equally, many countries would do well to acknowledge the honesty of subSaharan nations in being largely open about the nature and scale of the epidemic within their borders.

5.   What a country does in one part of the world reverberates throughout the system.

6.   Western countries can do little to influence the political power struggle currently going on in Moscow.

7.   Also, the measure of whether the country is doing OK is not simply how the economy is doing.

8.   Americans officials say they are only doing what other advanced countries have been doing for years.

9.   Americans did not grow up playing soccer the way other countries did, which is the most obvious reason why many of us do not care.

10.   And other countries do a better job integrating minorities in the economic mainstream than the United States does.