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Hanneke said that there will likely be further advances, perhaps by using the same techniques to measure the positron—the electron’s anti-matter counterpart...
...Ehud Olmert may be in an even weaker position than his British counterpart. The prevailing view among Israelis that their government failed to achieve its objectives in the recent Lebanon war has left him fighting for his political life. Even the leaders of his own party have agreed that the unilateral withdrawals from the West Bank that had been a centerpiece of his campaign strategy are not politically feasible for the foreseeable future. Meeting with Abbas may be a way of signaling to Israelis that he is trying to forge ahead toward resolving the conflict, even though Corporal Gilad Shalit...
...World Cup may have helped a bit too, especially in Germany, where some retailers and restaurants did extra business. Governments have been quick to take credit. "We've finally cut the knot," enthused Michael Glos, the German Economics Minister. "Solid growth has returned," crowed Thierry Breton, his French counterpart, predicting that 2007 will be "a good to very good year." Many economists are more skeptical, pointing out a slew of significant risks that could nip the Euro-recovery in the bud, including the prospect of interest-rate hikes and the introduction of a higher vat rate...
...term also has had racial implications. In his book Coup, John Updike says of a white woman who prefers the company of black men, "some questing chromosome within holds her sexually fast to the tar baby." The Oxford English Dictionary (but not the print version of its American counterpart) says that tar baby is a derogatory term used for "a black or a Maori...
...been settled and a final WTO agreement would be reached at the G-8 summit. "Such tactics only show how little the Russian leaders understand of how America works," says Lilia Shevtsova, a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. What Putin did not understand is that his U.S. counterpart cannot make such decisions without congressional support. "If the U.S. system worked the same way the Russian one does, Putin would have won," Shevtsova notes. "Now, he has lost - and he is frustrated and angry...