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...influential men of the Great Central West, I am informed, introduced ex-governor McKelvie [of Nebraska] as the next president. Doesn't it seem reasonable to surmise from these circumstances that have arisen during the past few months - McKelvie's conference with the President at Washington; the first overnight guest of the President at his summer home; the recipient of the only visit made by the President on a private individual while at his summer home; and, as you say, the spokesman of the President in regard to the Farm legislature and one who is apparently pleasing to the financial...
...ludicrous. The educational sectors in those countries face enormous difficulties." This rings true. For the past few months, there have been reports of skilled-labor shortages in the most economically advanced areas of China. Second, free traders argue that even if China and India become advanced economies almost overnight, they will look just like Germany and Japan. And nobody--well, nobody you would trust--argues that trade between rich economies doesn't benefit everyone...
...death toll from Sunday's tsunamis that roared across the Indian Ocean passed 70,000 overnight Tuesday. The surging waters targeted wealthy Western tourists at Thai resorts as viciously as it targeted poor fisher-folk of the eastern Indian coastline, affected both Muslim separatists in Indonesia's Aceh province and the army sent to quell their rebellion, buffeted those parts of Sri Lanka controlled by the government and those in the hands of the Tamil rebels...
...19th century colonial settlement. Today, their former home?rich in ancient groves and pristine water courses?may be under threat from the island's logging industry, which intends to process the trees into wood chips and pulp. Granted, the Tarkine, spanning 450,000 hectares, is not going to disappear overnight and felling is now mostly taking place on the forest's periphery. But large sections of the Tarkine's heart?a 100,000-hectare area known as the "myrtle corridor"?have been earmarked for logging in about five years' time. That's why environmentalists are racing to prove that ecotourism...
...psychiatry and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "Habituation to some of the [stimulating] effects may happen even more rapidly." What passes for a lift, Griffiths warns, may be nothing more than relief from the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal--such as lethargy and headache--which begin after overnight abstinence. The discomfort is probably caused by adenosine-starved brain receptors overreacting when the caffeine is removed and the brain chemical starts flowing again...