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...That threat would carry more weight if the banks weren't so politically vulnerable right now. "They're trying to figure out the best way to screw the people that are bailing them out," says one Democratic leadership aide. "It's unacceptable." Even if they can't force through a bill as tough as they would like, top Democrats promise to make life painful for the banks...
...vicinity, FlyBy has made the trek there many a long night, sometimes with varying success. Not the best drunk food, but try the Chicken Parmesan sandwich or the Cheesesteak if you find yourself three sheets to the wind in this Brattle Square jump off. Warning: do not screw with the random homeless people. It's never as funny as you might think, and sometimes it ends quite badly...
...Clinton went off to plant trees with student volunteers. Obama sidled over to watch Clinton use a pickax to dig a hole, which the former President had obviously done before. Peering over the hole, President Obama said, "I just want to get in here so I don't screw...
...Amazon rainforest could be highly vulnerable to drought. And since living trees suck up CO2 from the atmosphere, massive tree mortality due to warming could produce a feedback effect, further intensifying climate change. In the end, we might need a bigger Biosphere 2, because we're on track to screw up Biosphere 1 - otherwise known as the Earth...
...paper over the increasingly apparent shortcomings of its own rule. As fuel lines in Kathmandu stretch more than 2 km and power cuts ravage the country, the Maoists announced last month their intention to form a commission to revisit the massacre eight years after it happened, tightening the screw on the lingering survivors of the 250-year-old monarchy. (See pictures of Nepal's Maoist camps...