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...Medvedev signed a preliminary deal and appointed negotiators to work out the details. Obama said the deal would be finalized by the end of 2009. But that deadline has come and gone, and no new time frame has been set. Even the agreement on the military transports has gotten tangled up in its implementation. On paper, the deal allows 4,500 U.S. military flights over Russia per year, but so far this year, there have been fewer than...
...culture has not. Yet it must. F1 is about as likable as a 250-lb. bouncer. It lives in a high-tech bubble and thrives on a velvet-rope mentality that keeps all but a few very high rollers far away from the cars and the drivers. "F1 has gotten extremely constipated and overly grand for itself," says Jackie Stewart. "When I was a wee boy, I went to the track and got [Juan Manuel] Fangio's autograph, I got Stirling Moss's autograph. It's still a fantastic sport, but it needs more of a feel-good factor...
Plenty of these climate effects had already been observed at the time of the 2007 IPCC report, including warming temperatures, shifts in rainfall (wet regions getting wetter, dry regions getting drier) and the increase in summer meltback of Arctic sea ice. Those patterns have continued, and in some cases gotten worse...
...them forced me to bring their two methodologies into consideration and then to complement each other,” says Beyer of her experience writing on both Economics and Art History. “I definitely got things out of combining them that I wouldn’t have gotten from doing them separately...
...nugget that did make some news was Rove's admission that Bush could never have gotten congressional support for invading Iraq without the threat of weapons of mass destruction. Of course, Rove defends the decision to go to war. But his reason for doing so is laughably thin: everybody thought Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and therefore everybody thought Saddam was a threat. Rove offers a damning list of Democratic politicians acting like politicians - making bellicose statements prior to the war, then criticizing Bush for rushing in when no WMD turned up. Touché. But then he goes...