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...percentage points, raising the specter of no party winning absolute control of Parliament. The problem: Britain has had little practice at coalition government in recent years. Its last attempt - more than 30 years ago - has done nothing to help sell the idea now. A hung Parliament could see a second election called in a matter of months. And all the while, Britain's $268 billion deficit goes unchecked. (Read: "David Cameron: UK's Next Leader...
...second experiment, 50 students were similarly divided into two groups, this time in equally bright rooms, but one group was given sunglasses to wear and the other glasses with clear lenses. Each volunteer was then placed before a computer and told to interact - via chat only - with a partner in another room, who was actually one of the researchers. The volunteers were given $6 to divide any way they wanted between themselves and their partner. There was no question of honesty on the line - keeping the entire $6 and giving the partner nothing was a permissible choice - but there were...
...role of] Dad and Mom when I was in the hospital with Amya,” Chele says. “He stepped up to the plate and didn’t complain; he maintained his grades; he still managed to play sports; all in all, he was the second parent for about nine years...
...fortified government headquarters, Diyala Governor Abdul-Nasser al-Mahdwe is relatively optimistic that the elections - the fourth poll since the U.S invasion brought democracy to Iraq - will go smoothly. "The country is getting better at elections," he tells TIME. "In the first, the fraud was about 40%. In the second, let's say 20%. Now it's not going to be that much...
...rescue efforts continued in the devastated area around Chile's second largest city, Concepción, Chile's President said the government would investigate whether a crucial tsunami-warning system failed to alert residents to the fact that they were in the path of an incoming giant wave. In an interview with TIME at Chile's Squadron 10 air force base outside Santiago, where hundreds of troops waited to be shipped to Concepción to combat looting and social unrest, President Michelle Bachelet described how in the hours after the quake, a breakdown in communication in the region...