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Maybe not. But it does need foreign aid, and booting a mid-level U.S. embassy messenger out of your country isn't the best way to cultivate it. Either way, this is the kind of atmosphere Obama will fly into in April when he attends his first regional summit, the Summit of the Americas, in Trinidad. It's instructive to note that Astorga's offending letter was dated Jan. 8 - while former President Bush, whose hemispheric policy was as ham-handed as any in memory, was still in office. Obama's first job in Trinidad is to convince the Latin...
...time to examine the deal and passage looks unlikely until Tuesday afternoon. "No action is not what any of my Republican colleagues are advocating, but most of us are deeply skeptical that this will work," Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said announcing his opposition to the measure. "And that level of skepticism leads us to believe that this course of action should not be chosen." It remained unclear if Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican who is Obama's nominee to run the Commerce Department, would vote. Gregg had said he did not intend to, but if Kennedy...
...research questions the validity of current network models that treat individuals as interchangeable nodes and neglect the genetic influence on network structures. “Our findings suggested that it’s not okay to treat people as interchangeable nodes. There’s heterogeneity at the level of nodes of network that needs to be accounted for,” Christakis said. The researchers developed a new model, called the “attract and introduce” model, which outperformed the previous models by including heritable traits of social networks. This new model is based...
...fish, and bacon. Although the correlation is very strong, this study does not point to a causal relationship between eating cured meats and leukemia, said Christiani. In order to show causation, researchers must look into the mechanism of how extracts from cured meats affect bone marrow at the cellular level. “These results need to be confirmed in other studies before doctors can make strong recommendations,” he said. “We don’t want the cured meat and sausage industry on our tails.” Researchers need to conduct long-term...
...education. "As a former governor, I didn't like it when [the Federal Government meddled with education] because they never funded it completely," Nelson said. "I'm prepared to make some adjustment in my attitude toward that if we can be sure that whatever we do on the federal level is temporary...