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...McCain continued: "In Washington, where political calculation seems to trump all other considerations, Democrats in Congress and their leading candidates for President, heedless of the terrible consequences of our failure, unanimously confirmed our new commander, and then insisted he be prevented from taking the action he believes necessary to safeguard our country's interests.... I watched with regret as the House of Representatives voted to deny our troops the support necessary to carry out their new mission. Democratic leaders smiled and cheered as the last votes were counted. What were they celebrating? Defeat? Surrender? In Iraq, only our enemies were...
When climate scientists use the word adaptation, they are referring to actions intended to safeguard a person, community, business or country against the effects of climate change. Its complement is mitigation--any measure that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, such as drawing power from a wind turbine rather than a coal-fired power plant. Mitigation addresses, if you will, the front end of the global-warming problem; by cutting emissions, it aims to slow rising temperatures. Adaptation is the back end of the problem--trying to live with the changes in the environment and the economy that global warming...
...largest and best organized opposition group and holder of 88 seats as independents in the current parliament. The contentious amending of Article 88 eliminates judicial supervision of elections and gives oversight authority to a new supreme elections council, thus ending what many Egyptians see as the only credible safeguard for free and fair voting...
...announced it was dropping the case on Dec. 14, Blair has been plagued with questions. When it was signed in 1986, the deal with Saudi Arabia - known as the Al-Yamamah contract - was thought to provide a guaranteed stream of revenue for the British aerospace giant and safeguard thousands of jobs in the U.K. An extension of the deal, involving the sale of Eurofighter Typhoon jets, was agreed just last year. For Blair , Britain 's ties with the Saudis are paramount. "My advice was that this investigation would do enormous damage to our relations with Saudi Arabia," Blair told Parliament...
...partial-birth abortion” campaign. But despite increased protests, the courts largely protected abortion rights toward the end of the last decade. In 2003, however, Congress banned partial-birth abortions on the basis that they were not medically necessary. In reality, Smith said, these procedures safeguard against “hemorrhage, cervical scarring, [and] death,” among others. And now, another case, Gonzales v. Carhart, is before the court. Smith described the case as a legal battle turned medical seminar. Though she said that “lawyers hate medicine because it is so mysterious and indefinable...