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...November ruling, the appellate panel’s two-judge majority ruled that the government had provided no evidence to prove that the Solomon Amendment was necessary for the military to fill the ranks of its Judge Advocate General (JAG) office, the armed services’ legal wing...
...Bush could be named person of the Year is beyond me. The man is an intellectual midget. His presidency has been marked by the full-scale manipulation of reality at all levels. The person responsible for that is political operative Rove, not Bush, who is a bumbling spokesman. To fill the gap left by the disappearance of the Soviet Union, the Administration created a new enemy, terrorism. But achieving that goal has only strengthened U.S. adversaries, especially al-Qaeda. Eventually, reality will come back with a vengeance, but it is the successors to the Bush Administration who will have...
...There is so much negative feeling that I would only give it a 40% chance of going ahead," says Professor K. C. Wong of Hong Kong University's Department of Real Estate and Construction, who has completed a financial study of the project for the legislature. Wong's calculations fill in some important gaps. While the public has been invited to give its input on the aesthetics and cultural facilities of the three competing plans, and to compare "plot ratios"-which measure how tall and dense each project will be-no disclosures have been made about the financial details: total...
...trustees who oversee the program, is that the money paid out in benefits will begin to exceed the amount collected in taxes. And since Social Security will run a surplus until then (and has been running one for some time), it has billions available that it can tap to fill the gap. Even under conservative estimates, the system as it stands will have enough money to pay all its promised benefits until 2042 and most of its obligations for decades after...
...clear that mammals did fill some of the niches reserved for larger animals. "It's quite possible," says Anne Weil, a Duke University paleontologist who wrote a commentary accompanying the Nature report, "that they competed with dinosaurs for the same prey." And because they ate dinosaurs, she says, they may even have had an influence on dinosaur evolution. What sort of influence? "We don't know," she says. "That's how it is with the best finds. They leave you with more questions than answers." Those answers may be lurking under the barely scratched surface of Liaoning province. --Reported...