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...India's status as a nuclear power, enabling it to buy nuclear fuel and technology from abroad despite having refused to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and having twice tested nuclear weapons. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told a gathering in Washington on Wednesday, "We have made enormous progress... We are 90% there...
...Officials meeting in London over the last two days have reportedly made little headway, but both sides are eager to make further progress before President George W. Bush meets Singh on the G8 sidelines in Germany on June 7. For that to happen, says Burns, both countries will need to make some "compromises...
When the sun rose the next day, word came down that the climbers had made surprisingly good progress during the night. While some had turned back early, at least 20 were pressing on toward the summit. Breashears grabbed a telescope from his equipment tent, trained it on the peak and saw that the report was true. In his eyepiece was a flyspeck line of climbers inching up the last 1,000 ft. of Everest's five-mile rock pile...
...least three years behind schedule. It is now supposed to be finished by September 2008, but even that date will likely be pushed back. "This is a beautiful disaster," says Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schulz , a Florida Democrat and the chair of an ongoing House hearing on the center's progress. Quips Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican who also chaired the hearings until 2004, "We will have Iraq figured out before the center is finished...
...delays and budget increases were still continuing by 2003 when first the House, then the Senate, began holding hearings on the center's progress. They were unsuccessful at speeding up construction or reining in costs. By January 2007, when the Democrats took over Congress, the CVC's budget had reached $592 million and its completion date had been set back to June 2008. The House began hearings again, this time under Wasserman Schultz. At April's hearing she was told the budget would likely surpass $600 million and the final date would be September 2008. To say that Wasserman Schultz...