Word: foldings
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...gesture to apologize to Clinton was reportedly well-received, and Power was brought back into the fold to review both the State Department and the U.S. mission to the United Nations for the presidential transition...
...decades. In 1980, IVF - in which hormones are used to induce the production of eggs, which are externally fertilized and then implanted back into the uterus - became available in the U.S. Since then, the percentage of twins and triplets as a proportion of total births has increased several-fold. It's almost as if no one is impressed by them anymore. Two kids? Blah. Three kids? A teeny bit warmer. But quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, septuplets, octuplets? Now we're talking. Multiple births have become easier, yet the dangers are very real for both mothers and children alike...
...currency manipulation. Doing so under U.S. law would compel the White House to open formal negotiations with China over its currency policy. Trade hawks in Congress, pushed by union allies and some manufacturing lobbies in Washington, have long pined for this. But the Bush Administration resisted, preferring to fold the currency issue into the broader biannual "strategic economic dialogue" (SED) started by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. That less confrontational setting was more likely to produce results on the currency issue than any forum that smacked of the U.S. putting Beijing on trial for "manipulation," the Bushies believed. In fact...
...flow and can continue. Yet with fresh revelations about Raju's alleged malfeasance surfacing every day - the latest, that he deleted all his e-mails from his final month as CEO - there are fears that the company's liabilities may be so high that it may be forced to fold by the end of the year. Whether, and in what form, Satyam will survive remains to be seen. But at least for now, its employees are safe...
...While officials use radar and radio collars to track bird populations, habitat destruction and climate change have disrupted migratory patterns. Moreover, the populations of certain species of birds are increasing at rapid rates, thanks to changes in food supply. The Canada-goose population, for example, increased 4-fold from about 1 million birds in 1990 to 3.9 million in 2008, according to Richard Dolbeer, one of the report's co-authors...