Word: actualizations
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This story features a man named Prince, an actual (Saudi) prince, a billionaire financial legend, a former Treasury Secretary and a British knight with a German accent. That, plus tens of billions of dollars in losses and a financial crunch that Americans may feel for years...
...lowers the bar by praising Mukasey. She accepts his statement that, “I was asked at the hearing and in your letter questions about the hypothetical use of certain coercive interrogation techniques…hypotheticals are different from real life, and in any legal opinion the actual facts and circumstances are critical.” Mukasey would have you believe that questions about waterboarding are purely hypothetical in nature...
...play A Game at Chess, which satirized the tense Anglo-Spanish relations at the time, was the biggest box-office hit of the era - but it landed him in prison on charges of attempting to provoke public unrest. Unlike some of his fellow playwrights, Middleton dared to write about actual people and current events. This willingness to court controversy led some of his works to be banned or burned, which has made it all the harder for later scholars to reconstruct his oeuvre. There were several attempts in the 20th century to put together his complete works, all of them...
...infection. So far, researchers at QUT have pinpointed several proteins that could be used in a chlamydia vaccine. Timms hopes to begin testing the vaccine on koalas this month. According to Timms, over half of Australia’s koalas are infected with chlamydia. Guinea pig trials, with actual guinea pigs, will hopefully follow in 2008. “The idea is to be able to model the immune system and then test some vaccines that the Australians have underway to see if they can actually protect in other models,” Starnbach says. Dubbed...
...Reed, Dick Durbin and Carl Levin - who had voted against the Iraq war and yet supported the resolution, but that's the sort of argument you make when you can't convincingly explain your own actions. My guess is that she's taking political cover on Iran. Clinton's actual foreign policy positions haven't been much different from Joe Biden's or Obama's. She is rhapsodic about the possibilities of diplomacy, and she has earned the trust of the military because of her hard work on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Her refusal to be pinned down...