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...only games all year we played a full 60-minute game,” Taylor’s co-captain, Dave MacDonald, said in agreement...
...images on the Web. The incident caught the imagination of Chinese Netizens, and Zhou and the Chongqing "nail house" (named thus because it stood out in an otherwise leveled landscape) became an overnight sensation. Apparently embarrassed by the publicity, the city government and the developer soon came to an agreement with the homeowner. Zhou was acclaimed by fellow bloggers and interviewed by Chinese and foreign reporters. He also began receiving text messages, e-mails and phone calls from other "nail house" owners across the country seeking his help...
...proximate cause is irresponsible mortgage loans made to people who can't pay the money back. The deeper cause is, at least in part, years of too much borrowing and spending by Americans, both as individuals and collectively through the government. But behold: there is?oh, joy!?bipartisan agreement on a solution. Although quibbling over the details, everyone?Republicans and Democrats, the White House and Congress, all the presidential candidates?agrees that what we need is a "fiscal stimulus...
...country to refuse to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, America is seen as hastening global warming while foiling attempts to slow it down. At December's U.N. climate-change summit in Bali, the frustration toward American intransigence on global warming was palpable. When U.S. negotiators stood in the way of agreement during the summit's final day, the anger boiled over, with delegates, observers from environmental groups and even members of the international press booing the American team. The U.S. eventually dropped its opposition to the Bali road map, but that did little to allay suspicion that Washington would remain...
...However, Barroso insisted that the E.U.'s ultimate goal was not to slap on trade sanctions, but to secure a worldwide agreement on cutting emissions. "This is about global warming, global climate change, not only climate change in Europe. We've got to put our proposals in such a way that we bring others with us," he said. The proposals, he said, would also give Europe more energy security and make it less dependent for supplies "on regimes that are not our friends...