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...Last month, McCain tried to enter the Obama-Clinton feud by attacking the Illinois Senator for his "naivete." And in last Sunday's presidential debate, McCain made sure that the audience knew he was a warrior: "I am fully prepared-fully prepared, more than anyone else running on either side-to fight the transcendent challenge of this nation, which will be for all of the 21st century. And that is the struggle against radical Islamic extremism...
...Moscow keeps more than nine tenths of the 6% royalty that SE pays on oil and natural gas pumped from Sakhalin, leaving just crumbs for the islanders. Pensioners live off vegetables they grow themselves, and it's not uncommon to see bundled old women by the side of the street selling carrots, while new SUVs pass them by. And, despite all that natural gas, Sakhaliners still use coal to heat their homes - although the government may transform the island's infrastructure to use gas in the future. "People think Moscow uses the island to squeeze out all of our natural...
...looked at this report...I realized this isn’t rocket surgery, it’s brain science,” Neufeld said, prompting laughter from the audience. “In Kansas, we’ve put a pretty good emphasis particularly on the health care side and the policies we do are scientifically and data-driven policies, and this document helps us get there...
...There is certainly no shortage of possible explanations for the differences in American and French social policy. But what lurks behind the social science is a basic uneasiness on the American side of the pond about forcing individuals into any sort of public conformity. In a country where a single religion, Christianity, is overwhelmingly dominant, and where governments dabble in “faith-based initiatives” to make political hay, it’s understandable that one would recoil at policies meant to subdue difference. What would become of the United States, after all, if the apparatus...
...special an opportunity I had to travel and experience different places. And I could say the same for my life now in the U.S. Indeed, for the past two years I have fallen into that same trap at Cambridge, moaning about how the grass is greener on the other side of the pond...