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...most analysts agree, Saberi and another Iranian-American arrested last year, Esha Momeni, are to be used as leverage in any future U.S.-Iran negotiations, possibly to demand the release of two Iranian nationals taken by U.S. forces in Irbil in 2007. Alternatively, Saberi may be a victim of Iran’s judiciary hardliner’s backlash against the clear signals of an increasingly positive attitude toward a US-Iran rapprochement among various power factions in Tehran...
...Demand for new products is staggering. By the time French beauty giant Lancôme officially launched its new $34 battery-powered mascara wand--with 7,000 oscillations per minute to thoroughly coat each lash--in October, the waiting list for it was 32,000 customers...
Mexico's recognition that it has to reform its law-enforcement system coincides with a belated U.S. confession. An insatiable demand for drugs north of the border, the Obama Administration concedes, together with rampant smuggling of guns and laundered drug profits into Mexico, is just as responsible for the crisis. Obama is sending 500 new federal agents to the border this year to snare more weapons and money moving south, and last week he appointed a border-policy czar, former federal prosecutor Alan Bersin. The U.S. Administration also intends to put more emphasis on reducing demand by expanding programs like...
Still, until Juárez's crisis finally lifts, there are plenty in El Paso who will demand more and "weigh in on national policy," as O'Rourke, the city-council member, puts it. Talk of legalizing marijuana is growing; the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March heard prominent drug researchers argue that cannabis should be sold legally and taxed like tobacco. Ernesto Zedillo and César Gaviria, former Presidents of Mexico and Colombia, respectively, have said the same. And Mexico's Congress is again debating decriminalization of marijuana use, after backing off the issue a few years ago under...
...according to Armitage, the committee had not eliminated the idea of including graduate students and postdocs in a teaching capacity—especially since it is a common concern that there might not be enough professors to accommodate student demand. Other proposals to alleviate the personnel shortage included making great books seminars application-only to control the size of the program...