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What's it like to be shifted around so much? The most difficult part is not knowing where you're going to end up, as far as living, getting settled in and situated. Other than that, it's not that big of a deal. I didn't have to do a whole lot of traveling. It wasn't like I had to go to every city and take a physical. I haven't really gone anywhere. Each time I was traded, I tried to figure out where I fit in with each team. I envisioned myself playing for that team...
...result, any perceived indifference to Honduras on Obama's part could sour his start and make it harder to engage the region on matters Washington cares about, like drugs and trade. Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, who tacitly backed a failed coup attempt against Chávez in 2002, promised a new relationship with Latin America, but saw his free-trade plan for the hemisphere die and drug production soar. Now even moderate Latin leaders are decrying Washington's quiet efforts to use military bases in Colombia for U.S. antidrug operations; their pique will increase if they decide Honduras...
...community came to terms. By leaving Nepal as a young college graduate, he experienced for the first time both homophobia and acceptance. In 1992, he went to Belarusian State Polytechnic Academy in Minsk to get his master's degree in computer science. The newly independent country, which had been part of the Soviet Union, welcomed students from the developing world, but he arrived at a time of growing hostility toward homosexuals - a banner at the college's medical clinic warned "Beware of Gays." He spent five years hiding who he was. "I understood that my sexuality could be a problem...
...brain reinvent a second-tier agency, to keep his Inaugural Address pledge to "restore science to its rightful place." With Obama publicly committed to an economic transformation designed to slash U.S. carbon emissions 80% by 2050, Chu will be America's first Clean-Energy Secretary - a job that's part green evangelism, part venture capitalism and part politics...
...perfect for parts one and two. The fate of the world, in Chu's calculation, hinges on part three...