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...supporters argue that he must have that option in order to remain as a supervisor for the budding and still fragile democracy. With the election results, however, the new Majilis is now as totally controlled by the President, as the old one was. The victorious Nur-Otan party will fill 98 of the 107 seats, with nine remaining vacancies will be filled by the Assembly of the Peoples of Kazakhstan - a consultative body under Nazarbayev, chaired by Nazarbayev...
Politics kept the commission from even exerting the small leverage it has. When the CPSC's chairman quit in July 2006, leaving just a pair of members, President Bush waited until March 2007 to fill the vacancy. But his nominee, a business group lobbyist with a reputation for hostility to safety regulations, ran into confirmation problems. He withdrew his nomination in late May. The President has not filled the vacancy, prompting Senator Mark Pryor to accuse him of increasing risks to children of dangerous products put on shelves "unchecked." The Arkansas Democrat pushed through legislation this month empowering the CPSC...
...Lawrence is no longer listed anywhere near its highly competitive peers. In an essay published in the Washington Post last March, the college's president emeritus complained publicly that U.S. News was planning to calculate a peer-based statistic, or as she said, to "make up a number," to fill this important ranking criterion...
That's why he founded Reef Check. Realizing that one man's chore might be another's hobby, Hodgson decided to fill the information gap by enlisting people who were naturally interested: divers. In 1997 he created a global network of volunteer snorkelers and divers, specially trained by scientists to monitor reefs using a standardized checklist. Over the last 10 years, Reef Check's volunteers have amassed a bounty of data on the world's coral. "In the beginning, people were looking down on us, saying 'Oh, you guys are just volunteers,'" Hodgson recalls. Now, Reef Check has become...
...further damage to the shuttle on re-entry. But Shannon says he's more comfortable with the known risks associated with the gouge than with the unknown risks of an untried repair job, which would have required the astronauts to coat damaged tiles with heat-resistant paint and fill the hole with a caulk-like goo. The next shuttle mission, Shannon said, will likely include an in-space test of repair options, so mission managers can better understand what they're facing...