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...more than 400,000 in 1997 to 177,000 last year. Its debts stand at $54 million. Plans for a snap election, conceived during Brown's brief honeymoon to capitalize on his popularity, added urgency to fund-raising efforts, but were abandoned as Labour's ratings plunged. The fallout damaged Brown badly. "The root of our problems is the dithering over whether to hold an election," says a former government adviser. "Politics can be shaped by a collective mood which shifts. You suddenly had a confident Tory leader against a Labour leader who ran scared...
...metaphysical complications of a question like this could leave philosophers debating for days. However, for many Harvard students, Pilbeam is interim dean of the College, social science professor, paleontologist and, of course, the person responsible for squashing UC party grants. But for all the self-righteous outrage in the fallout of Pilbeam’s controversial decision earlier this fall, can Harvard students pick him out of a lineup? A recent survey says maybe, but don’t put your money on it. In a super-scientific poll conducted among 40 Harvard students in Annenberg Hall and Lamont Library...
...Only males who could withstand the negative fallout of higher testosterone levels are showing the signals of having better genes to resist disease,” Marlowe said...
...CARBON FALLOUT Researchers say the carbon released by the dying vegetation will contribute heavily to greenhouse-gas emissions, nearly canceling out the total absorbed by trees in the U.S. through photosynthesis...
...fallout of the apparent flip-flop was quite revealing of some candidates’ sentiments about illegal immigration. In addition to some Democratic candidates deriding Clinton’s “dishonesty,” Republican candidates criticized both Clinton and Governor Spitzer for the plan, with Mitt Romney saying that “it communicates to people coming to the country illegally that, with a wink and a nod, it is alright...