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...swimming of a single jellyfish generates barely a ripple in the world's vast oceans. But what about a bloom of thousands of the creatures? Moving together, could they contribute to the large-scale mixing of ocean waters - the way the winds and tides do - as some scientist have long conjectured...
...oceanographers familiar with the subject say research into ocean-mixing is only just beginning and that it's too early to make such assertions. "I appreciate what they [the Caltech team] are saying, but taking experiments of one particular event and extrapolating it to a global scale is always problematic," says oceanographer Andre Visser of the Technical University of Denmark...
...downtown of this city of 50,000 probably hasn’t seen any large-scale commercial development in the past two decades aside from a gleaming glass-and-steel hospital complex. A similarly-styled seven-story “Justice Center” casts its shiny bureaucratic glory over the faded grandeur of the city’s original court house...
...Massachusetts enacted mandates for universal health insurance in 2006, those with new coverage quickly overwhelmed the state's supply of primary-care doctors, driving up the time patients must wait to get routine appointments. It stands to reason that primary-care doctors could be similarly overwhelmed on a national scale. (See TIME's photos of the Cleveland Clinic and its approach to health care...
Still, Obama is not necessarily stuck in a quagmire. Recognizing the limits of what could be achieved in Afghanistan, the President has scaled back U.S. ambitions from the Bush Administration's lofty objective of turning the country into a modern democracy. "We have a clear and focused goal," he said in a policy speech in March, "to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future." That goal does not necessarily require the defeat of the Taliban per se - a goal that many analysts have long deemed unrealistic...