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...Latest polling figures show that around 70 percent of people in Britain disapprove of the government's handling of the crisis, so Blair's in a difficult bind. It's not yet clear whether they're going to go ahead with inoculation, although they've been granted permission by the E.U. to go ahead. Many people in these farming communities prefer the idea of slaughter to vaccination, because current technology doesn't properly discriminate between the presence of antibodies as a result of infection and the presence of antibodies as a result of inoculation. That could mean that Britain would...
Because they were preoccupied with their jobs, bus people had little time to make the commitments to the volunteer fire department or school board that bind other people to their hometowns. Bus people have children who are now old enough to take over their businesses. But otherwise they are footloose. Their best friends are the other bus people they meet again and again on the road during the annual circuit...
...praised the House system as a way to bind the undergraduate community together...
...domestic politics, particularly when the leadership feels the need to underscore patriotic themes in times of uncertainty. And that saber-rattling can easily generate a momentum of its own, especially when it's matched by belligerent nationalist rhetoric in Taiwan. That leaves the U.S. in something of a bind: Washington is bound, by its Taiwan Relations Act, to ensure the island's ability to defend itself. In 1996 that commitment brought Washington and Beijing to the precipice of confrontation, after President Clinton moved a naval battle group into the Taiwan Strait to avert an invasion. But the prospect of putting...
...then, new technology such as fiber-optic control systems and advanced high-speed transmission lines may help bind the wobbly system together. "Our vision is really a seamless cross-border market for electricity," says Hydro Quebec's Candal. That's a lot better, and a lot harder to achieve, than a quick profit on calamity...