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...United States is certainly right to condemn Iran for its progress in enriching uranium. Undeniably, nuclear proliferation, regardless of which country promotes it, destabilizes the world and increases the likelihood of mass destruction and death of the kind witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, it is difficult to conceive how the U.S. government can justifiably berate Iran without any qualifications. Not only does the perennial complaint that the nuclear-armed US should lower its own nuclear stockpiles remain valid, but the Bush Administration has provided Iran with even more reasons to acquire nuclear weapons capability in the short term...
...claims about the long-term effects of exposure to mercury, according to Bellinger. “There is a possibility that some subtle effects might emerge years from now, but based on what we’ve seen so far, I don’t know what the likelihood of that is,” he said...
...Pirates of the Caribbean”). Once you move to L.A., get discovered, learn to talk in a cute accent, and get screen time in period clothes that showcase your best assets, you’ll be set. If you can succeed in accomplishing all of this, the likelihood that you’ll attain your sex-symbol status is akin to a senior hooking up with a seventeen year-old pre-frosh next weekend: very high. Just like your role model, Austin Powers, women will want to sleep with you and men will want to be you. Or vice...
...sites. Layering demographic and TAB traffic data over maps of billboard locales, the study delivered the sharpest outdoor ratings the industry has seen. Nielsen found that, on average, Chicagoans pass 66 outdoor displays each day. TAB is conducting its own industry-funded study to measure the likelihood that a person passing an ad will see it. It's not all that surprising, then, that advertisers such as Unilever, Coca-Cola and McDonald's are reconsidering billboards in their ad mix. "Outdoor now has a place in the media-planning process," says Wally Kelly, ceo of CBS Outdoor. Coca-Cola...
...Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), according to the Planetary Society. “It’s overwhelmingly likely—a certainty—that there’s other life in our galaxy,” Horowitz said yesterday. “There’s a pretty good likelihood that much of that life has evolved to a technological state.” According to Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society’s director of projects, aliens who are only as technologically advanced as we are could be sending brief optical signals across the galaxy. “With...