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...physicist Davide Cassi, also participated in the panel. "If it were called something else, it wouldn't make you think there's something there you don't know or can't trust. But the moment you start talking about molecules, about these particles that you can't see, people begin to get concerned...
...benefits of cleaner air may even be felt in towns whose skies weren't that dirty to begin with. Those that began with the very lowest levels still saw health benefits from small improvements. The evidence isn't yet there to determine whether those benefits would continue growing until the fine-particle pollution got down to zero; one of the cities closest to that, Albuquerque, N.M., still hovers around 5 micrograms per cubic meter. But at this point, it doesn't seem that the benefits taper off. "If it continues to follow what we've observed, it appears that there...
...terms of a ballet company’s spring season, winter season, and “The Nutcracker.” For those folks who instead rely on a calendar, the general consensus is that the opening night of “The Nutcracker” is the official beginning of the string of ensuing holidays. It is a time capsule of magic, warmth, and joy—for adults, a foray into childhood and innocent dreams; for children, an escape into an extraordinary land in which one can be transported by hot-air balloon into the Land of Sweets...
...Livni had been perceived as "Ms. Clean," the brusque woman who would sweep the sleaze out of Israeli politics. But after the Gaza invasion, that no longer mattered: Israelis reverted back to their primary obsession with national security, and Livni was found wanting. Says Ephraim Inbar, Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Herzliya, "She was eclipsed by Barak. She wasn't associated with the success of the Gaza operation, but with the failure of the U.N. vote." The U.N. resolution called for a cease-fire, which Israel and Hamas both ignored, but Israel's refusal made...
...Thursday did show some unexpected signs of life. Industrial production revived slightly in December, and loan growth surged. Merrill Lynch said in a report that the fourth quarter of 2008 and this current quarter could be "the trough of this growth cycle," as government stimulus and loose monetary policy begin to boost domestic demand. The data gave enough hope to Credit Suisse's Tao to convince him to keep his 8% GDP growth estimate for 2009. "Double-digit growth won't come back in the next two to three years," says Tao, but the country is still better off than...