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...loose on the street) are mere contrivances played simply for laughs; I get more insights into parenting (not to mention more amusement) from a typical episode of Two and a Half Men. What makes the play tolerable are the four good, and very different, actors - Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels and James (Tony Soprano) Gandolfini - who at least have some juicy, if stereotypical, characters to sink their teeth into. Unfortunately, the play only made me grit mine...
...prove more environmentally beneficial. But the mere absence of hard copies is not a solution to the larger problem of the current guidebooks, print or online. In their current condition, these guides—specifically the Q Guide—need a major reconfiguration, and we can only hope that the shift to an online version will be a catalyst for the necessary improvements. In order to ensure that the print version of the Q Guide will never be missed, the new online version should reinvent the previous guide. First, the rating rubric, which is currently limited...
...small scale. Rather than try to leapfrog so far past China that they’ll never catch us, we should instead co-opt them into our plans for planetary exploration and let them help cover costs. It’s not too much of a stretch to hope that cooperation on space issues could lead to further cooperation on energy and climate issues as well...
...would consult with its allies. But that's about as far as the diplomacy will go. Diplomatic and intelligence sources in Seoul late last week acknowledged that neither China nor Russia - both permanent members of the Security Council - will agree to further sanctions. "The best [Seoul and Tokyo] can hope for is a statement from the Security Council that condemns the test," says Chol Jinwook, director of North Korean Studies at the Korean Institute for National Unification. (See pictures of the New York Philharmonic's performance in Pyongyang...
...best Obama can hope for now is to get North Korea to return to the six-party talks (hosted by Beijing and including South Korea, Japan and Russia.) Washington has tried to signal Pyongyang in advance of the launch that it was still interested in talking, "because," says one Western diplomat, "the big picture remains the same, missile or no missile: getting them to abandon their nuclear weapons program...