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...question everyone from President Barack Obama down is now asking - What does China want from Kim Jong Il? - isn't necessarily the right one. China's leaders have said that a nuclear North Korea is contrary to their "core interests." The more important question is: How much leverage does Beijing actually have over the North, and how much political will do the Chinese have to defend those core interests...
Medialdea is a modest man, but as he watches the gawky birds poke through the water for food, he beams. "Because of our artificial intervention, the natural environment is improved," he says. "The point isn't to make use and conservation compatible. The point is to use in order to conserve...
Gibbs' suggestion that "most people are neither pro-choice nor pro-life but both" is ill informed. Since January 1973, Americans have clearly understood this issue and been sharply divided on it. But just in case Gibbs isn't clear: pro-life means, Don't take the life of an unborn child. Pro-choice means, The wants or needs of the pregnant woman supersede the idea that human life is valuable. And the Gallup poll suggests more people are valuing human life. There's no confusion here. This isn't above my pay grade. Therese Stenzel TULSA, OKLA...
Sure, there are some market seers convinced that Siegel and his work will eventually be consigned to the dustbin of history--because they think the U.S. economy has entered into an inexorable decline. But among Siegel's fellow finance wonks, the debate isn't about his basic premise. It's about the lessons the rest of us should or shouldn't draw from...
...earned retirement, and who is bound to get bumped off so the hero can avenge him. There's also the ticking-clock mechanism of an expedition that's coming to fetch Sam, and the private multinational corporation, Sam's employer, that simply must have nefarious motives. Yet the movie isn't interested in suspense tricks or conspiracy theories so much as in investigating Sam's mind/body problem: he has a surplus of the latter and may be losing the former. Indeed, the picture could be called Lunacy, since its protagonist's mind drifts between moony and loony. Is Sam really...