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...Jeffrey Ebert, a psychology graduate student at Harvard and co-author of the study, wrote in an e-mail. “For whites, this meant they developed a stronger, more persistent learned fear response to the face of a black stranger; for blacks, this meant more robust learned fear toward a white stranger...
...when Will charges, "You killed my friends," Pryce purrs, "I only wish you had more") with the labored buffoonery of Peter Stormare's Italian henchman. But in the enchanted forest, Grimm's sense of wonder is spellbinding--a reminder that Gilliam is as much shaman as showman. His reckless, robust imagination leaves Hollywood's prime confectors of fantasy light-years behind...
...priced in dollars, so companies earning in yuan will see their energy costs decline by 2.1%. In fact, China's macroeconomic landscape is expected to remain virtually unchanged by this initial revaluation. Overall growth, which reached a scorching 9.5% in the second quarter, is expected to remain extremely robust. "Simply put, we don't see any effect whatsoever of a 2% revaluation on exports or imports," wrote Jonathan Anderson, an economist at UBS in Hong Kong...
...weapons," says Henry Sokolski, who served as a top Pentagon official on proliferation issues in George H.W. Bush's Administration. Since 2003 the Administration, with those of 10 other nations, has pursued the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), which is trying to halt the spread of nuclear weapons through more robust interdiction. U.S. officials say the PSI has curbed Iran's and North Korea's nuclear efforts and helped persuade Libya to give up its quest for weapons of mass destruction...
...closer upstarts get to going nuclear, the more tempting it may be for established powers to restart the arms race. The Bush Administration is determined not just to modernize its aging arsenal but also to develop a new type of bomb, the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator--known as the "bunker buster"--which would be used to blast targets buried deep underground. Both North Korea and Iran are believed to have buried clandestine nuclear facilities. But John Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration, argues that by talking of a new type of bomb, the Administration is undercutting...