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...Despite its obvious need for a diplomatic success somewhere, anywhere, given the quagmire in Iraq and the stalemate over Iran's purported nuclear-weapons program, the Administration could not be accused of overhyping what it got in Beijing. This was not a comprehensive solution that could bring about a nuclear-free Korean peninsula-a goal that, Bush aides say, the President has eagerly sought. But it was, Washington insists, an important first step toward that goal-"an early harvest," as U.S. negotiators like to call it. "Little plants come up," Hill says, "and you harvest those immediately...
...browser have also established themselves as significant and lasting economic realities. That's not true yet in the worlds of science, news and entertainment: we're still figuring out what the role of volunteers will be, but that it will be much bigger than in the past seems obvious...
Even champions of evidence-based practice acknowledge that the approach has limits. "Some things can't be tested in randomized trials, and some things are so obvious, they don't need it," says Dr. Paul Glasziou, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, England. There have never been randomized trials to show that giving electrical shocks to a heart that has stopped beating saves more lives than doing nothing, for example. Similarly, giving antibiotics to treat pneumonia has never been rigorously tested from a scientific point of view. It's clear to everyone, however, that...
...urged that "we bring an end to this war in Iraq" by sending our combat troops home. "It's time," he said, "to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war." Obama anticipated the obvious objection that giving up on the attempt to resolve someone else's civil war isn't the same thing as actually bringing that war to an end. So he concluded with this sentence: "Letting the Iraqis know that we will not be there forever is our last, best hope...
...site, with its white-and-blue color scheme, is nearly an exact replica of Facebook.com—and, according to a Harvard Law School professor, is an obvious infringement on Facebook’s copyright...