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...robotics, $7.8 billion to develop new flight techniques such as in-orbit fuel depots and closed-loop life-support systems, and $3 billion to develop new unmanned ships. There are no entirely unworthy objectives in that list (with the possible exception of the ISS), but there's also no clear way of getting humans back into space after 2010, once the shuttles are mothballed. What's more, there's not a thing in the plan that would get your heart to race. Building spaceships just for the public thrill of it may seem like a luxury we can't afford...
...this century, the carbon-emissions cuts they've promised are not nearly steep enough to achieve that goal. And while tens of billions of dollars have been pledged to help developing nations cut carbon and adapt to climate change, the mechanism for delivering that money isn't clear...
...France lawyer Fernand Garnault told TIME last week he is convinced Continental is solely to blame for the crash. "It is clear that a piece from a Continental plane fell on the runway. It is clear that the origin of the accident was this," says Garnault, one of France's leading aviation lawyers. "This is my personal conviction and of course that of Air France...
...leaders of the opposition, a compromise has obvious attractions. Resilient as the protesters may be, it's not clear that the Green Movement can continue indefinitely in the face of the state's overwhelmingly superior force - nor is there any visible prospect of the regime's losing control of the streets. Iconic leaders such as Karroubi, Khatami and Mousavi are perhaps less dangerous to the government free than they would be if imprisoned, because their movement's activities are so curtailed and many of their aides and allies are in jail. Moreover, the longer the protests have continued...
...just where the center of gravity in Iran's regime lies in the postelection political landscape. Ahmadinejad spent much of his first term filling positions with allies from the Revolutionary Guard, the élite military force, and they returned the favor by orchestrating the postelection crackdown. It's not clear now just who calls the shots. Also, concerned with the danger posed to the regime's survival by internal strife, hard-liners may be tempted to pick a fight with the West to create a pretext for cracking down harder at home...