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...There is a bright yellow line between ought and is,” he said. “I think science can have important implications...
...just sprinkled them with drops of water, not whole basins full." Zheng Peng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political advisory body, told the official government news agency Xinhua that this year people ought to splash water in a symbolic manner, as was done "in the traditional way," when water-splashing was limited to the last day of the festival. In fact, the Dai do not refer to the New Year's holiday as the "water-splashing festival"; that moniker was introduced by foreigners...
This journey started with TIME editor-at-large Josh Quittner's piece in February 2009, which argued that the magazine industry ought to start thinking about how "to provide a new reading experience once the iPod of [e-readers] finally arrives." But that was notional. Once we found out about the launch of the iPad, it became a dash to get ready. We did not get the tech specs from Apple until a little over a month ago, and then scores of people started working together inside the magazine, TIME.com Time Inc. and beyond. (See the top 10 Apple moments...
American workers are angry, and the labor movement ought to form alliances across socioeconomic groups to prevent this anger from turning into hatred, President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka said at an Institute of Politics forum last night...
...also guilty of similar behavior, including the Democratic National Committee’s own, milder profligacy and the groping scandal of former New York Congressman Eric Massa, the Democrats do not profess to be the vanguard of traditional values and fiscal responsibility. For their own good, therefore, Republicans ought to urge the RNC to remove Michael Steele and replace him with someone better able to exemplify the qualities they wish to sell to voters...