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...Born February 4, 1947, in Kittery, Maine, he's a 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy along with fellow admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Virginia Democratic Senator Jim Webb...
...agreement would result from the complicated talks. Alexei Miller, from Russia's state-owned Gazprom, and Oleh Dubina, from Ukrainian Naftogaz, eventually met in Brussels after playing cat and mouse games to avoid one another in the corridors of the European Commission and the European Parliament. A planned joint press conference appeared to be canceled at the last minute when it was due to take place in a room named after murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya...
...maglev takes a load of hardware and a ton of power and is useless for small, simple kinds of engineering. The new breakthrough - achieved by a joint team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Harvard University and published in a paper in the journal Nature - provides an alternative...
There are three types of legislative resolutions. First, there are joint resolutions, which are approved by both houses of Congress and can be as serious as real bills, with actual outcomes like appropriating emergency funds (if the President signs them) or adding Constitutional amendments (if they are ratified by the states). Then there are concurrent resolutions, like the annual congressional budget resolution, which also must get approval of both houses but do not carry the force of law. The third type is a simple resolution, which is also not a law and needs the approval of only one house. This...
...they have already been cooperating with their Iraqi counterparts. "I think there is going to be zero difference between what we do now and Jan. 1 and beyond," said Lieut. Colonel John Vermeesch just before the end of 2008. Vermeesch commands some 880 U.S. combat troops spread across five joint Iraqi-U.S. bases in northwest Baghdad. He is one of the battalion commanders in the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, a 4,000-troop force that arrived in Baghdad in mid-October to start a 12-month tour. They say they started complying with...