Word: responds
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...instead of simply a campaign promise. And any move to produce new nuclear weapons will be read by other nations as a U.S. push for nuclear supremacy, even as Washington urges the rest of the world - Tehran, are you listening? - to do without the weapons. Russia would very likely respond by upgrading its own arsenal...
...make a huge and immediate change by reducing black carbon," says Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Director of the Center for Clouds, Chemistry & Climate at the University of California at San Diego. (Black carbon manifests as soot particles that comprise brown clouds.) While carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere respond on a sluggish 100-year timescale to reductions in emissions, soot particles, whose effects are equivalent to roughly half the warming damage that carbon dioxide does, have a shelf life of only a few weeks. Environmentalists have joined scientists' call to urge governments to cut pollution by introducing more efficient heating stoves...
...blood spilled in Gaza, it will be difficult for Israel to gauge the proper response to another provocation by Hamas. What will happen once the cease-fire begins without Hamas? If a rocket is fired from Gaza and lands in a crowded Israeli schoolyard, what then? How will Israel respond? There is not much left in Gaza to destroy...
...zoological humor - no one is firing porcupines. But the 109-year-old Bronx Zoo and other zoos and aquariums around the country are facing serious budget cuts as the state and city governments that supply much of their operating costs respond to the recession. In New York State, Governor David Paterson has called for cutting $5 million in funding from the Zoo, Botanical Garden and Aquarium Program budget - dropping total state funding for 75 wildlife and nature centers in the state from $9 million to $4 million in 2009 - and eliminating it altogether in 2010. In North Carolina, state officials...
...Well, of course we're having an event - it's the Inauguration. What Renuart means is that he's prepared should terrorists strike while perhaps 2 million Americans jam together on the National Mall next Tuesday. "We ought to be prepared to respond if something does happen that requires the Defense Department to provide support," he said, for "an event this visible and this important and this historic." (See TIME's Person of the Year, Barack Obama...