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...Still, there are those who see too much opportunity to quit the country. At the Sulawesi gold-mine site, Dave Morrison has begun hiring contractors to complete facilities construction. Archipelago hopes to start digging next year. "Everyone is telling the truth from their own aspect," Morrison says of the controversy surrounding the mine. "I'm confident that things will move forward." If Indonesia's leaders did more to reinforce that confidence, perhaps the country's promise, like its gold, won't always seem out of reach...
...Washington is in favor of more cancer. But attempts to expand the NIH's budget or get separate funding from Congress have been stymied by internecine fighting among cancer groups. Armstrong tells of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden's frustration at being besieged by cancer-site advocates--lung, breast, blood--and those for other terrible diseases, each unwilling to let dollars pass to another without an argument. "Within that group, you have a lot of fighting, hogging, people trying to elbow each other out," says Armstrong. The legislators' message to these groups is simple: Get your acts together...
News of the gift was first reported by an article on XConomy, a Web site devoted to technology news...
Individual sellers that use eBay or AbeBooks are breaking the law, says Ginsburg, but whether the sites are also liable for the auctions is unclear. Ebay recently won a court case absolving it of responsibility for policing its auctions for counterfeit items - although it will remove an auction if contacted by the company that owns the rights to an item - but international textbooks are not technically counterfeit. Like eBay, AbeBooks acts as a third party for sellers - generally stores in foreign countries. One copy of Organic Chemistry found on its site was being sold by the William Bookstore...
...gunmen fired from a low hill overlooking the principal highway between the two cities. It is the only route that connects them, and has been the site of several other assassination attacks over the years. Assassins attempted to kill former president and general Pervez Musharraf on a different part of the route connecting the two cities back in 2003; former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's convoy was attacked nearby on December 27th, the day that Prime Minister candidate and Pakistan People's Party chair Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide blast at an election rally in Rawalpindi...