Word: hoping
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...sense: Who knows if we're going to use biofuels or gas or even automobiles for the next 100 years? Scientists believe we need to reduce our emissions 80% by 2050 to avoid catastrophe; the notion that we should tear down our rain forests and peatlands today in the hope that our cars will burn a bit cleaner a century from now is political analysis, not environmental analysis. "That's something we'll have to take into account as we go back and look at this," an EPA official told...
...trying to give us the names are being harassed much worse." The volunteers have some protection "because we are guests from Beijing. Because Ai Weiwei is famous, and he can make some noise. So they treat us very politely. But to those parents, they have completely lost their hope...
...such dire circumstances, the North's leaders not only consider nuclear weapons and long-range missiles a necessary deterrent, they surely also regard them as their only bargaining chips. And the bargaining can only be with Washington, which Pyongyang has recognized for some time as its best hope for surviving. From the North's point of view, any bargain would have to take the form of a new package deal that would reaffirm to Kim Jong Il that the U.S. is not hostile to the regime, accepts its legitimacy and is willing to provide long-term development assistance. Only...
...cutbacks published on the FAS Web site amount to $77 million in projected savings—a third of the total $220 million projected annual deficit that FAS administrators hope to close by July 2011. The cuts will be made over the next several months...
...program had promised, representatives from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine instead got a European straight-arm designed to keep them at a safe distance. Indeed, given the manner in which the courtship has begun, some observers now wonder whether any of the parties involved can ever hope to make beautiful music together...