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...result is that, today, all it takes is 41 votes to bring legislation you don’t like to a halt, perhaps permanently. This is a maneuver particularly suited to the Republicans’ current strategic weakness and characteristic tactics: Oppose everything, constantly whip up the base, feed a steady, daily diet of red-meat attacks to Fox News, hope that something develops traction and slowly begins to erode Obama’s or the Democrats’ credibility, and, above all, show that Obama and the Democrats are “ineffective...
...shortage of optimism - about how to find the holy grail of AIDS research. Their approach to vaccine development, outlined online on March 15 in the journal Nature, is to abandon the as yet fruitless search for a magic bullet - which zeros in on just a single target to halt the virus - and instead try to mimic the body's natural, if rare and more diffuse, defense against the virus...
...recent days, more than 1,000 lawyers and activists have been arrested as roads have been blocked in a desperate effort to halt the march. Section 144, a British colonial-era law that forbids any gathering of four or more people, has been extended to the North West Frontier Province - although armed militants seem exempt from the order. In the central city of Multan, police and intelligence officials impounded vehicles, forcing the protesters to make the journey on foot. Under a beaming sun, they were overcome by exhaustion, just a few miles out of the city. Travel bans have been...
...trump those seen in the same period last year. But a more modest $1,300 on offer to French motorists who give up their clunkers hasn't been enough to prevent car sales there from sliding 13% last month. Scrapping schemes in Italy and Spain failed to halt even steeper falls...
Conventional wisdom says globalization is grinding to a halt. Supposedly, the recession means free trade is down, the worldwide gambit is over, and open markets lost: Protectionism is up, isolation is on the onset, interventionist states won, and we’re spiraling into a 1930s-style “save-yourself” vortex. In the past few weeks, two articles in the most popular globalization-advocacy journal—The Economist—have specifically bemoaned the coming tide of “global disintegration” and the specter of worldwide “economic nationalism...