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...This wasn’t a premeditated development, to be sure. We certainly still enjoy playing basketball, and after three school years spent apart, it’s not that we irrevocably grew apart as friends. Instead, we’ve simply chosen to reapply our leisure time. Collectively, we have somehow found ourselves relocated to—dare I say it—more “adult” venues: bars, other cities, and less familiar blocks within our sprawling hometown. Unconsciously, we left Kips Bay to embrace the idea of doing new things with other people: other...
...every word in diplomacy is carefully chosen, so there may be more to Rice's surprising statement than anyone will admit. Perhaps Rice's willingness to talk about ceasefire had to do with the Sunday afternoon meeting between President Bush, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Rice and Prince Saud Al Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister; Prince Bandar, the regime's top national security official; and Prince Turki, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. The trio delivered a letter from Saudi King Abdullah to Bush. And though its content has not been made public, the Saudi government has made no secret...
Given its small size, Singapore will never really threaten the U.S.'s overall biomedical muscle, nor is it trying to. But it's impossible to witness the buzz at Biopolis or meet scientists who have chosen Southeast Asia over Stanford and not wonder how much the U.S. could achieve in stem-cell research if it were as science mad as this city-state of 4.4 million. For all the hundreds of millions of dollars Singapore has devoted to high-tech lab equipment and recruiting top scientists from around the world, it is spending just as much to educate a homegrown...
...large part of the controversy stems from HCL’s decision to replace the current chairs, designed by Aalto, with new chairs. The new chairs were chosen for their comfort, durability, and similarity to Aalto’s original design, Cline said...
Mexico's next president will be chosen by the country's electoral tribunal, and he will carry the mandate not of the majority, but of the largest minority. Right now, the provisional result gives the job to Felipe Calderón of the ruling conservative National Action Party, by a margin 243,934 out of 70 million registered voters (0.58%). Calderón is doing his best to talk and act as a president-elect, but the alliance backing the center-left candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, claims its man won but the counting was crooked...