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...about the same things in his books. The lawyer turned to a note that Diana had written to Burrell - over time it's been creatively nicknamed "The Burrell Note" - in which she said she was convinced Prince Charles was planning for her to have an accident in her car, "brake failure and serious head injury." Earlier, Burrell had said he'd found the note propped up on his desk, left there by Diana. But in A Royal Duty, he gives a detailed account of sitting in a room with her and discussing the note while she wrote it. "We really...
...snag in the idea is that taxing web use is widely stigmatized as a sure way to stunt economic growth. "Generally speaking, taxing the Internet is considered a bad idea, and a potential brake to net use and development," says Audrey Mandela, founder of the independent London consulting agency Mandela Associates. "But without knowing the details of the French proposal, it's difficult to say how problematic an Internet tax there would...
...Ambassador to Buenos Aires Anthony Wayne was called in by the Argentine Foreign Ministry on Tuesday and told that "we have been surprisingly and unjustly offended." However, in diplomatic circles, the scandal is seen as emanating from an independent judicial system that has inadvertently put a brake on the warming relations that Washington hoped to enjoy with Fernandez, who is perceived to be more moderate in her support for Chavez than her husband and predecessor Nestor Kirchner...
...them fall somewhere on the autism spectrum and most are mentally retarded or learning disabled as well. Fragile X occurs when the brain fails to produce normal quantities of a chemical known as the Fragile X mental retardation protein, or FMRP. This protein appears to act as a brake on the production of other proteins in the brain, including those associated with learning and memory. Without enough FMRP, protein production spins out of control, like a runaway train. The brain develops an abnormally dense number of connections, resulting in a variety of physical, mental and behavioral problems. "Fragile...
...long can they keep doing this?" The U.S. Federal Reserve gave a partial answer recently when it abandoned a five-month-old commitment to keeping rates low "for a considerable period"--a statement widely interpreted to mean that rates are headed upward later this year. That's a growth brake...