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...vote went three to one for Obama, higher than ever before,” said Jennifer Donahue, a political reporter who directs the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. The fellows discussed whether the spike in youth involvement is unique to this election. “Is this just one moment in an electoral cycle?” Purcell asked. “or are these young people going to vote year after year in different elections?” Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant, said he thought that the youth vote “will mature...
...have had seasonal harvests, but the people of this time lived in a complex and perhaps even flourishing society. "What we see [with the Natufian burial rites] is the beginning of a tribal system," says Bar-Yosef. The shaman, buried with her mysteries, looms mercurially over this moment...
...findings at the Syrian site have yet to be declared in any official IAEA documentation, but whatever the conclusion of the IAEA's investigation, the deepening suspicions toward the Assad regime are coming at an increasingly complicated moment in relations between Damascus and Washington. Late last month, U.S. special forces launched a raid into eastern Syria targeting an alleged al-Qaeda weapons smuggler. In response, the Syrian government shut down an American school and cultural center in Damascus, and forced American Fulbright scholars based at Syrian institutions to leave the country. On Sunday, the New York Times reported that...
...sudden uptick in tension comes at a moment when Syria had begun to appear as one of the bright spots in a troubled region. U.S. officials had acknowledged that Syria had begun to stem the flow of insurgents into Iraq, while last spring, Damascus revealed that it had been holding indirect peace talks with Israel. President Assad, moreover, had said peace in the Middle East was possible within two years, if only the U.S. would sponsor direct talks, and hopes were high that the incoming Obama Administration would do just that...
...Another worry that goes hand in hand with stimulus packages like this one is the possibility of stoking inflation. For the moment, though, Beijing can breathe easy on that issue. After wrestling to control rising inflation over the past 18 months, the government reported recently that China's Producer Price Index "declined sharply to 6.6% year-on-year in October, from 9.1% in September," Ulrich of JPMorgan wrote in her report. She noted that the Consumer Price Index, which will be released this week, will also moderate further from last month's level of 4.6%, which was the fifth successive...