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...doing on No. 1 and No. 2?"--meaning Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. The answer, more often than not, amounts to "Same as last week, Mr. President." Despite a seven-year manhunt along the lawless frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan, al-Qaeda's leader and his deputy remain at large, thanks to their superior knowledge of the terrain and the protection of local tribes. Now bin Laden and al-Zawahiri have an added advantage: the precarious state of Pakistani politics...
Serious problems remain, however. Some Japanese firms are wary of selling their best technology to China out of a justified fear that it could be stolen. Beijing's lax protection of intellectual-property rights "is the biggie that is hampering technology transfer into China," says Jennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center. In other cases, such as solar-power generation, the technology is simply too expensive for China...
...California FIRE WITH FIRE A firefighter uses a flare to light a firebreak as hundreds of blazes crackled across Northern California, scorching about 570 sq. mi. (1,475 sq km) of land and threatening the tourist enclave of Big Sur. With the weather expected to remain dry, officials said some of the wildfires could burn for months. Devastating fires last October caused more than $1 billion in damage...
...future of the court will be determined by the next presidential election. If McCain wins and gets to replace one or two liberal Justices with reliable conservatives, there will be a lopsided conservative majority and Roberts will have little incentive to win over the marginalized liberal Justices who remain...
...contrast, if Obama wins, the ideological makeup of the court will remain the same for the foreseeable future--four liberals and four conservatives, with Kennedy in the middle. In that case, Roberts' success in promoting bipartisan unity may make the difference between a Supreme Court that declares war on Obama's domestic agenda--from health-care reform to a national response to global warming--and a court that is content to get out of the way of a Democratic President and Congress. Maybe that's why Obama is already sending bouquets to the Roberts Court: even if the Chief Justice...