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...Later this month, Iran will respond to the West's incentives package to negotiate over its nuclear program. In all likelihood, it will either say no or hedge, and the stage will be set for a drawn-out confrontation whose outcome will be determining to the Middle East. Eager to forecast what will happen, and to clarify what kind of threat Iran proposes, observers are grasping for clues everywhere, from Iran's ancient history to its religious practices. Many of these arguments lead away, not toward, the very real tensions dividing the country. Here are two analytical pitfalls to avoid...
...actor, Bennett goes over lyrics for days--even for songs he has sung forever--repeating them until they're second nature. When the time comes to record, the words pour out with different emphases on each take. (On Cold, Cold Heart, the shift from a brisk apart to a drawn-out uhhhh-part tips the mood from disdain to misery.) The advantage is that his performances are spontaneous and deeply felt; the disadvantage is that each one exhausts him. So Bennett values focus and speed in his partners, and the fact that it took Elton John just 31 minutes...
...delivered by then, the likelihood is that it will hold even more frustration for the Bush Administration. That's because officials in Tehran are not treating the Western offer as the ultimatum that U.S. officials have made it out to be, but merely as the beginning of a drawn-out negotiating process. The Iranian leadership is engaged in intense debate aimed at formulating a counter-offer - one that would satisfy the international community's goal of making sure Iran's nuclear program is confined to civilian uses while at the same time pushing back on some of the specific demands...
...years,” says David E. Reich, an HMS assistant professor of genetics.Reich says the data suggests that rather than following the traditional view of speciation, in which populations split and are isolated for long periods of time, the human-chimp split involved a “long, drawn-out period of genetic exchange between populations.”The next step for the team is to test whether the human-chimpanzee relationship is an exception or part of a larger pattern.While this sort of hybridization is not an accepted mainstream process, it may have evolutionary benefits?...
...branches, the two species hardly had the cleanest of break-ups. So far, scientists have believed that “speciation” occurs when an isolation barrier such as a geographic impediment divides a population and mating stops, Reich said. However, that theory is not applicable to the drawn-out separation of humans and chimps discovered by the researchers, according to Reich. Reich said he hopes to conduct further research looking into the question of whether speciation processes involving hybridization might have been more common in the animal kingdom. —Staff writer David Zhou can be reached...