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...other recent challenge to conventional Cretaceous wisdom comes from a paper in the journal Science, published Thursday. It's pretty certain from many lines of evidence that the world was much hotter then (which is why a post-comet cold snap would have been pretty tough on the dinosaurs). During a period called the Turonian, about 90 million years ago, things got especially toasty: In some places, during what's often called the "super-greenhouse" years, the ocean's surface temperature approached 100 degrees F, and alligators thrived in the Arctic...
...With even his staunch Western supporters deploring that decision, Saakashvili sought to restore his democratic credentials by lifting the stage of siege, resigning and calling a snap Presidential election, which he now appears to be winning by the skin of his teeth in the first round. This would be crucial as going into a run-off could have proved his undoing...
Rambo CELLULOID GOLD Oh. Snap. We open on a jungle, somewhere in Action-Movie Asia. A synthesizer hums. A cannon fires, and we’re in a village where Action-Movie Asians are screaming and dying. But then we see those big, stubby fingers, fondling a tiny crucifix. And then come words that every voiceover-man would kill to say: “He is a legend of war. A soldier without a country. You know his name. And you know...” Pause. “...what he’s capable...
...exchange rates are also making it cheaper for Indian corporations to snap up overseas firms. This fiscal year, India's total spending on overseas acquisitions and companies (foreign direct investment outflows) could pass $30 billion, according to a study by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Ernst & Young. That would more than double what corporate India spent abroad in the 2006-07 fiscal year, and would reflect a net outflow of FDI for 2007. And the most high-profile deal may be yet to come: Indian car firms Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra...
Labour needs money. Income from dues has tailed off as membership has fallen from a modern peak of more than 400,000 in 1997 to 177,000 last year. Its debts stand at $54 million. Plans for a snap election, conceived during Brown's brief honeymoon to capitalize on his popularity, added urgency to fund-raising efforts, but were abandoned as Labour's ratings plunged. The fallout damaged Brown badly. "The root of our problems is the dithering over whether to hold an election," says a former government adviser. "Politics can be shaped by a collective mood which shifts...