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...Indeed, nature has survived and prospered in the subtropical habitats that surround Brazil's second city. Nobody actually gets eaten by snakes, but more than a few Cariocas have come across them on tile porches and asphalt highways, lost and disoriented by the sounds and smells of a modern metropolis...
...address the party's underlying problem of losing votes to Die Linke, which under party chairman Oskar Lafontaine - himself a former SPD Chancellor candidate - has grown to become the third largest party in Germany in just three years. "Germany's oldest political party hasn't managed to adapt to modern times," says Langguth. "These days, it consists of two wings - the traditionalists and the reformers," and their differences are growing rather than abating...
...simply dealing with an insurgency but defending the country," says Anthony Cordesman, a military scholar with the Center for Strategic and Independent Studies. "And when a country is looking for prestige - a symbol of coming back as a fully operating nation - you're going to have to have modern weapons, and among the choices Iraq has, the F-16 is a very good...
...about designing things, is building a $100 million research center that will put together biologists and chemists with engineers skilled in such arts as nanofabrication. "We are going to breed a group of people who are totally aware of the cancer problem and totally aware of the modern tools and computational powers of engineers," says Sharp...
...personal hero of mine and a founding mother of the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender--rights movement, Dorothy (Del) Martin died Aug. 27 at the age of 87. Del's entire life was marked by moments of singular courage, intelligence and insight. She began as a journalist, studying at the University of California, Berkeley. She applied her vision and writing skills to activism, and she can be credited with some of the most transformative changes toward LGBT equality. Del's contributions include co-founding the nation's first lesbian organization--Daughters of Bilitis--and the first lesbian newspaper...