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...past year, Jones has been holed up at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he led a program to redefine America's energy policy. At the same time, Congress asked Jones to assess the training of Iraqi forces, a key to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. By last summer, says a close Obama aide, "General Jones was already under consideration for a top job in the Administration...
...obscures the true value of the sale, and I don’t know if that’s legal or not, but from the perspective of tax assessing, if everyone did that, nobody would be able to assess any property,” Mattison said. “The whole reason all those records are public is because someone felt the sale price should be public. There should be that paper trail...
David Zald, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt, studied whether the brains of those thrill seekers differed in any way from those of the less adventuresome when it comes to dopamine. He gave 34 men and women a questionnaire to assess their novelty-seeking tendencies, then scanned their brains using a technique called positron emission tomography to figure out how many dopamine receptors the participants had. Zald and his team were on the lookout for a particular dopamine-regulating receptor, which monitors levels of the neurotransmitter and signals brain cells to stop churning it out when there...
...described it, lasted for several months and was only recently rectified. "We had some temporary problems," he said, explaining that they were precipitated by the government's public-sector pay raises that took effect in July. "There should be more coordination between the central bank and the government to assess and to project for the demand for currency by the government." That is quite the understatement...
...Kids Catching Up? The latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study revealed that while math and science scores for fourth- and eighth-grade students in the U.S. now beat the world average, their Asian counterparts continue to do better. The exams are administered every four years to assess global differences...