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Politicians, like poker players, know the importance of keeping a straight face. Even when they're holding the feeblest of hands, they have to ensure that their opponents never know how close they are to folding. But in the epic poker match between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou over a potential European Union bailout of debt-ridden Greece, who is the real deal and who is bluffing...
...This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] The designers at NASA are preparing to fly what may be the feeblest spacecraft they've ever built--and they couldn't be prouder of it. Never mind the decades of unmanned probes that have gone roaring into the void at tens of thousands of miles per hour, fire streaming from their tails. The new ship will putt-putt into interplanetary space under the power--if that's even the word--of an engine that accelerates by barely 15 m.p.h. (24 km/h) per day, or zero...
...that our children will grow up in a significantly warmer world, one whose climate will change in unpredictable ways. Yet for all the factors working against any sort of agreement in Kyoto, the last hope of controlling that change may depend on what happens there this week. Even the feeblest of agreements is better than none, says M.I.T. atmospheric chemist Michael Molina, who shared a 1995 Nobel Prize for helping unravel the tangentially related problem of ozone depletion. "The larger issue is to make sure the process begins," he says. "We'd better get started...
...poet named Benjamin Franklin Taylor caught both the metaphysics and, unintentionally, the comedy when he wrote this rhapsody to the phone: "The far is near. Our feeblest whispers fly/ Where cannon falter, thunders faint and die./ Your little song the telephone can float/ As free of fetters as a bluebird's note...
Starting with Quisenberry, or rather, stopping with him, Kansas City is a team of pitchers, a gentle way of saying the Royals have the feeblest batting average in the American League and have scored the second-fewest runs. California, on the other hand, is a team of pensioners. From First Baseman Rod Carew to Rightfielder Reggie Jackson, as sure as the Chicago Cubs play in daylight, the California Angels play in twilight. Their manager, Gene Mauch, is the most respected one never to win a pennant. Ahead of the Royals by one game in the West division, the Angels faced...