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...Monitor,” named after the Civil War ironclad ship, is ostensibly a concept album centered on living in our times and questioning identities, with a focus on the lingering importance of the Civil War. The songs run into each other without gaps as the group focus on building a narrative exploring the oppressive ideologies of living in America today, questioning our times with references to the context of the ideological shifts of the Civil...
House Democrats are unlikely to agree to pass the Senate bill without some kind of ironclad guarantee that the Senate will actually follow through on its promise to make changes to its original measure. Among those: scaling back the so-called Cadillac tax on very expensive health care policies and stripping the bill of sweetheart deals for individual Senators, such as the now infamous "Cornhusker kickback" that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson arranged to exempt his state from having to pay additional costs for expanding Medicaid. One possibility under discussion would have at least 51 Senators signing a letter promising...
...case isn't ironclad. "I think it's interesting," says Penn State climate modeler Ryan Sriver, who wrote a commentary in Nature. "I'm not totally convinced yet." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...potential is staggering. For decades, we have stumbled around massive Darwinian roadblocks. DNA, we thought, was an ironclad code that we and our children and their children had to live by. Now we can imagine a world in which we can tinker with DNA, bend it to our will. It will take geneticists and ethicists many years to work out all the implications, but be assured: the age of epigenetics has arrived...
...military casualties since a November 2003 car-bomb attack in Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq, killed 19 Italian soldiers. That death toll was cited when Italy eventually pulled out of Iraq in 2006, but at the time of the Nasiriyah attack, Berlusconi held firm to Italy's military commitment and ironclad alliance with then U.S. President George W. Bush. (See Berlusconi's worst gaffes...