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...Although a concession isn't required for Yudhoyono to assume office, Megawati's silence has hamstrung efforts to ensure a smooth political transition. Indeed, with the Oct. 20 inauguration looming, she has given little sign that she intends to meet with her successor at all. Meanwhile, Yudhoyono has twice canceled planned acceptance speeches, and aides tell TIME that he is reluctant to make any overt assertions of power in deference to the President...
...copyright management has hamstrung the movie industry's attempts to make a business out of file-sharing technology. Two years ago, major studios launched a service called Movielink, which offers movies for downloading to your computer at about the same time they hit the pay-per-view window. Not only do the movies take hours to download, but they also disappear from Movielink's catalog altogether 90 days later, when they enter the premium-cable window. Because channels like HBO and Starz! offer lucrative licensing deals, Movielink has not been able to compete in the latter window...
...that neither candidate has been particularly eager to confront the hard facts of energy policy this election season. No surprise there. But at least one thing’s for sure: Until we get serious about energy independence, American foreign policy in the Middle East will continue to be hamstrung at a time we can least afford...
Marist’s 11 attack errors over the course of the game hamstrung its chances of a comeback, as the Crimson pulled away for the 2-0 lead...
...slates that develop into all the body's tissues. Thanks to stem-cell technology, people could become their own tissue donors with pristine, unrejectable cells at the ready to repair damage done by, say, Alzheimer's disease or spinal-cord injury. Stem-cell research in the U.S. has been hamstrung since the Bush Administration's 2001 decision restricting federal funding for the work to existing cell lines. In South Korea, which forbids human cloning only for reproductive purposes, the game is much more open...