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...sweeten their offerings. This conviction is widely shared among career diplomats in Seoul as well, and they joined their State Department colleagues in outrage when the Bush Administration at first took a confrontational approach with the DPRK. Bush's hard-line stance, the critics believe, prompted Pyongyang to kick-start nuclear-weapon production. Intelligence analysts in Washington and Seoul believe that North Korea increased its total arsenal from one or two nukes to seven or eight during Bush's time in office...
...policy, which was worked out between Washington, state governments and the auto industry, will require automakers to meet a minimum fuel-efficiency standard of 35.5 miles a gallon by model year 2016 - four years earlier than Congress currently requires. Not only could the move potentially kick-start the sputtering U.S. auto industry, while saving the equivalent of some 1.8 billion barrels of oil, it also raises hopes that the Obama Administration will be able to forge a compromise on the tricky matter of a national cap on greenhouse-gas emissions. "It's an enormous breakthrough for national legislation," says Vickie...
...moved to slash government expenditure 40% over five years, balance the budget by 2012 and double the consumption tax to 10% by 2015. In the light of Japan's economic meltdown, all that has changed. Like other deficit-busters, Yosano has turned to old-fashioned Keynesian demand management to kick-start the economy. "He shifted completely to say that to get over this crisis we need a big stimulus package and to worry about fiscal consolidation and reducing deficits later," says Gerald Curtis, a Columbia University politics professor who has known Yosano since the late 1960s...
...question is, How can any of this be used to help autistic kids? Nobody recommends inducing fevers to kick-start the locus coeruleus, since that could lead to all manner of side effects and other ills. Instead, Mehler and Purpura believe the likeliest answer is in medications that target noradrenaline brain receptors. "First, we should look at the signaling pathways in the region of the brain involved," Purpura says. "Then we could look at treating the receptor sites with some kind of pharmacotherapy." For once, the step that's missing from a proposal is the one that involves shouting about...
That plan went nowhere, and in mid-February Geithner announced that the government would design a partnership between private investors and the feds that would kick-start a trading market for the assets. But figuring out what mix of incentives and restraints should be written into the program has proved extremely tricky...