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Eventually I gave up and moved on to the next topic: babies. Absolutely, he replied. We'd been together for 2˝ years by that point, and while he didn't want to bother getting married, a family was something he could happily commit to. (See pictures of couples who are famously unmarried...
Obama has relinquished the previous Administration's approach by prioritizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the first year of his first term, by showing a willingness to press the Israelis to live up to their commitments under previous agreements - particularly with respect to building settlements on land captured in 1967 - and by raising regional expectations that the U.S. will commit to pressing for a two-state solution. But how can Obama's resolve to move the process forward be turned into policy? (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who was declared killed by the Sri Lankan government on May 18, had decades to think about how his end would come. It could have come from the cyanide capsule that he - like many Tiger fighters - wore around his neck, a pledge to commit suicide in case of capture by the Sri Lankan army. He had been fighting a war for an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority since 1983, and the army had pursued him throughout the jungles of the north and east for decades. In 2002, during...
...enormous” variability among graders, said Wei, who explained that because the tests’ format is free response, the grade and quality of feedback largely depends on the individual grader. While some graders are very comprehensive and spend a long time with students, others are less committed, said Wei. Wei said he also hoped the reduction in test graders would lead to greater selectivity in the program, since only the graders who are devoted will decide to commit to the longer hours. Wei said that the reforms came about as a result of ongoing scrutiny, as well...
...been hailed as a kind of magic weed. Once again, the EPA used rosy life-cycle assumptions to conclude that next-generation biofuels will reduce billions of tons of emissions over the next century, ultimately reducing our oil consumption by 11%. If those draft conclusions become final, they will commit the U.S. to an additional 21 billion gallons of biofuels...