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...worrying.'" But that is dangerous ground. Not worrying about what others think speaks to a splendid isolationism of the mind. Even if Europe doesn't have the heft it used to, the U.S. will find managing the rise of Asia's new powers much harder without help from the bulk of the most prosperous democracies. Even if the U.S. seems more and more like another planet to younger Europeans, the problems posed by Islamic radicalism and Iranian nuclear weapons, to say nothing of global warming, will fester if the U.S. is not involved in seeking solutions. So how could Europeans...
Still, the principle of gene-by-gene comparison remains a powerful one, and just a year ago geneticists got hold of a long-awaited tool for making those comparisons in bulk. Although the news was largely overshadowed by the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the same week, the publication of a rough draft of the chimp genome in the journal Nature immediately told scientists several important things. First, they learned that overall, the sequences of base pairs that make up both species' genomes differ by 1.23%--a ringing confirmation of the 1970s estimates--and that the most striking divergence...
...hearing anything but the sound of his own voice,” Carter said. “He gave responses that to me seemed practiced and non-convincing, and in the case of the Holocaust, particularly disturbing.” While Ahmadinejad spoke to the council for the bulk of the meeting, at one point Carter broke in. “I had to interrupt him to say that the issue was not Iran’s right to have nuclear weapons, but human rights,” Carter said. However, Ahmadinejad “returned to his set position...
Although soccer fans have been known to blow things out of proportion, all but the most rabid devotees of Manchester United are likely to balk at the bulk of this 850-page club history, the first of 12 luxury sports books from publisher Kraken Opus...
...challenge, then, for creating cars that run on something other than oil—and, further down the road, generating the bulk of our electricity from something other than coal—is two-fold. We need a renewable energy source that doesn’t emit greenhouse gases. And we need a way of storing that energy in a form that can be driven around. The latter has few viable solutions: despite intense research, battery technology is still relatively poor, and hydrogen has all the disadvantages already discussed. For the former, we have lots of promising, but highly underdeveloped...