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Early last week, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had reason to be optimistic. During a meeting in Ankara, Pope Benedict XVI said he was in favor of Turkey joining the European Union. This reversed an opinion he had delivered previously as a Cardinal, saying the move would be "a grave error against history." But the good news was short-lived. Just days after the Pope's remarks, Olli Rehn, the E.U.'s Commissioner for Enlargement, recommended that the E.U. suspend a portion of Turkey's membership talks just 13 months after they began. The reason: Turkey's continued unwillingness...
...islands exposed to the predator, Losos predicted that natural selection would initially favor the longer-legged lizards because they could more successfully avoid the predator. After six months, results showed that the surviving lizards did indeed have longer legs than those on the predator-free islands...
...Losos said that as the lizards became more arboreal in an attempt to avoid the predator, natural selection would favor shorter-legged lizards, who would be more adept at maneuvering in trees...
...buying votes. "Chavez has bought all the people in the barrios," she said. She also told her son to vote for the President, wary that opposing Chavez could bar him from access to government jobs and programs. Her fears are not unfounded - countless people who signed in favor of holding a referendum to oust Chavez in 2004 say they're blacklisted and can't get a government...
Susan Eaton, the research director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice—which sponsored the panel—said that a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs would represent “the hammer over the final nail in Brown v. Board of Education’s coffin...