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...most of the East European states that were once bound to Moscow in the Warsaw Pact - has been a dreadful blow to Russian pride. Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center, believes a quiet agreement is possible: "Privately, Obama can tell the Russians that there are no plans to let these countries join NATO ... but [Russia] can help by making it clear [it] will not attack or destabilize any of [its] neighbors." Even a private agreement, though, would risk being interpreted as a betrayal by those in Georgia and Ukraine who seek the protection of NATO membership. Nor would...
...months BerkShares.org logged nearly 42,000 hits a day in April) as the recession has encouraged more innovation. For example, a Vermont business association is getting ready to launch a statewide cashless trading network. Ithaca, N.Y., which has the nation's longest-running independent currency, agreed in June to let people start using the 18-year-old bills to buy transit passes...
...know a woman--let's call her "my wife"--who swears by Spanx, special "body shaping" undergarments that magically hide her modest bulges. These New Age girdles are hugely popular with many women, but Spanx for dudes? I'd rather get a stomach staple. (See pictures of the latest mancessories...
Only two of the world's 15 biggest economies are expected to grow in 2009: China's and India's. Brazil's government still thinks it can eke out positive growth for the year too, although outside forecasters don't quite buy it. Let's call these three countries the BICs. BRIC - for Brazil, Russia, India, China - is the better-known acronym, coined in 2001 by Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill as shorthand for the globe's emerging economic giants. In mid-June, leaders of the four BRICs even held their first summit meeting. But Russia, a resource...
...population." (In real life, Falco is a health-care-reform activist.) Jada Pinkett Smith also plays an overworked nurse taking on bureaucracy, on TNT's Hawthorne. On NBC's fall drama Trauma (not to be confused with CBS's Miami Trauma), a supervisor warns a paramedic not to let a mother assist with her son's emergency tracheotomy: "It's a lawsuit waiting to happen...