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...critical juncture in efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability. Iran has rejected a proposal to ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for further processing and is refusing to meet the main requirement of the international community—the long-overdue suspension of its enrichment of uranium. Since Iran imports up to 40 percent of its refined petroleum, curtailing its access to fuel might have a severe impact on the Iranian economy, forcing the regime to suspend its nuclear program and open the door to relief from sanctions. As President Obama has said...

Author: By DARRELL J. BENNETT Jr. and ALEXANDER CHESTER | Title: Time to Explore Iran Divestment | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

Nancy M. Cline, the head librarian of HCL, sent a message out to library staff acknowledging that the library will continue to face financial pressures that prevent the refilling of positions left open in the wake of cost-reducing measures...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS To Lift Salary Freeze | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...renegotiation of part of its collection less than two years off, its curators must surely be wringing their hands about Borja's latest statement, issued on Dec. 3. Now that his mother had sued him, Borja's lawyers wrote, the scion no longer finds any "moral impediment" to prevent him from doing the same. In which case one of the greatest collections of European art in the world could soon find itself on the auction block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Feud Imperils a Prized Spanish Art Collection | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...better from a fiscal standpoint, certain details of the CLASS Act have made it an easy target for critics. Examining the merits of these criticisms provides a window to understanding both the complexity of health care reform and why it's so ripe for mischaracterization. For instance, to prevent people from purchasing long-term-care coverage when they are already in need, the CLASS Act requires that enrollees be employed and pay into the system for five years before becoming eligible to collect benefits. But because the CBO evaluates the costs of legislation - like the Senate reform bill - based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Long-Term-Care Insurance Be Part of Health Reform? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...other words, creating an amount of energy three to four times times the amount created during a nuclear fission reaction—a possibility realizable with the detonation of an atomic bomb—could produce such catastrophic results that the future might travel back in time to prevent such a thing from occurring...

Author: By Shaomin C. Chew | Title: The Fate of Science | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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