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...five combat brigades that "surged" to Iraq last year and helped quell the violence. But many Americans want that withdrawal to continue beyond the 30,000 troops added for the surge. Not so fast, says General David Petraeus, top U.S. commander in Iraq, urging a pause to evaluate the impact of the removal of those five brigades before sending more troops home. This weekend, Defense Secretary Robert Gates backed Petraeus, meaning that when the U.S. troop contingent in Iraq drops from the current 158,000 to about 130,000 in July, it could remain at that level into the fall...
...that we had discord amongst ourselves, we just noticed differences respective to each of our economic situations...and the degree of impact," said Japanese finance minister Fukushiro Nukaga, who co-chaired the G-7 meeting with Bank of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui. "But we're here to work in partnership to overcome this difficulty." The U.S. was "taking on the central role" Nukaga said, adding that "each country will do what they can, respectively...
...dimensional cut-outs of clouds, stars and faces. Puppetry and design is clearly the group’s forte. A particularly impressive feat of costuming surfaced when the ensemble donned security cameras for heads, in what was stylistically unique yet contrived commentary on post-Patriot Act surveillance. But the impact of this too was lessened when one of the cast members, winding through the first row of seats, chose to make the notes for this review part of the performance by writing what must have been intended to be a resoundingly profound...
...bottle. People who had seen the Great Barrier Reef video agreed to pay on average about 50 cents. People in the group that had been primed to feel sad offered up four times that price, more than $2 on average - but were unaware that the video had any impact on their spending. The experiment, which was conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Stanford and the University of Pittsburgh, will be published in the June issue of Psychological Science...
...Evangelical voters are a lot like American voters," he said wryly. "They have a funny way of deciding for themselves who to vote for. Don't make the mistake of equating the impact of a Richard Land or a Dobson with the head of the AFL-CIO. We don't have that kind of authority, don't aspire to it and the people in the movement wouldn't allow it anyway. Only a candidate can deliver the voters to himself. And it is social conservative voters who'll decide the person for whom they're going to vote...