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...claims it won't even affect how he feels about it. "Like every parent who has a son or daughter serving that way, you will have great concern, but you'll also have great pride," McCain says. But it will be hard to ignore. If Republicans retain control of the Senate after November's midterm elections, McCain is due to become chairman of the Armed Services Committee in January, a position he has long aimed for. There he would have day-to-day responsibility for oversight...
...buildings—not strip malls—for their stores. “We try to make each store interesting in and of itself,” McKelvey said. “[The company] gives us the freedom to make all of the stores slightly different and to retain the character of the place we’re going into.” McKelvey said that American Apparel also tries to create an environment that will encourage people to stop in on a whim. “We really think about the store as a kind of neighborhood store...
...when negotiations at Camp David got mired in the devilish details of a deal--how Jerusalem would be governed, how much land Israel would retain on the West Bank, how Palestinian refugees should be handled. Since then, Israel has seen suicide bombers flock to its cities from the West Bank and watched rockets sail into its towns from Gaza and Lebanon, areas from which it had withdrawn all its soldiers--in the case of Lebanon, a full six years ago. Within that context, it isn't the details of a two-state solution that matter now; it is something much...
...biomed field. This month, Singapore announced a doubling of its R&D budget, to $8.2 billion over the next five years, making it a regional research hub, particularly in stem cells. That's attractive to frustrated American scientists--and worrisome to people who want to see the U.S. retain its scientific edge...
...mail did not state the duration of O’Brien’s departure or if she would retain her post as deputy dean at the end of the leave...