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...Today is a moment of truth for Ukraine.' YULIA TYMOSHENKO, Ukrainian Prime Minister, about negotiations over a disputed energy debt with neighboring Russia. A last-minute settlement averted a midwinter shutdown of Russian natural gas to Ukraine...
...Supreme Court is part of this slow-motion shutdown of the death-penalty machine. In recent years the court has banned executions of mentally retarded inmates and of prisoners who committed their crimes as minors. The mere fact that the court is hearing the lethal-injection cases is historic because the institution has always been reluctant to inquire into the business end of the death penalty...
...interviews before the vote that they didn't believe the no vote had a chance. Despite that atmosphere, and a persistent opposition conviction that the results could be fraudulent, the nascent student movement helped galvanize many detractors to vote. When students took to the streets to protest the forced shutdown of the opposition-aligned television station Radio Caracas Television earlier this year, the country had all but forgotten that the universities were one of the very few sectors of society left that was not yet controlled by the government. On that occasion, young people staged their largest protests after...
...been able to do all of last season. It went over .500.The Crimson’s 3-0 victory over No. 16 Rensselaer propelled its record to 2-1, a far cry from the 0-3 mark it began its season with last year. A 4-0 shutdown of Union the next night raised the question of whether this season’s team has the talent to reclaim its usual place as a national powerhouse.“This is a good start,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato...
...absence of action, by the 2080s global warming will reduce agricultural productivity 30% to 40% in India, 15% to 25% in Africa and Latin America and 20% to 35% in the southern U.S. and Mexico. And if we consider the longer-term catastrophic risks from the runaway greenhouse effect, shutdown of the Gulf Stream andcollapse of the West Antarctic ice shelf, curbing carbon dioxide emissions is a small price to pay for insurance, even though adaptation will also be needed...