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...peace negotiations with the Palestinians by freezing settlement activity on the territories conquered in the war of 1967 - a failure that has underscored Arab skepticism over talking peace with Netanyahu - the White House appears determined to use the Israeli gaffe as leverage to extract a major concession to spur the peace process...
...while Tea Party leaders say they aim to spur critical thinking, at times the candidates and crowd seemed gripped by groupthink. Tea Party volunteers distributed slips of paper with the group's core principles - limited government, fiscal responsibility, individual liberty, free market and constitutional governance - and asked the audience to tick off boxes next to candidates whose answers matched those tenets. "Government is there to protect the people. It's only there to provide security. And now it's usurping more and more duties," says Israel Jackson, a Liberty University student volunteering on Campbell County businessman Ron Ferrin's campaign...
...administration has asked House Committees to refrain from promoting their Houses in Annenberg Hall until Housing Day, as Dingman and others believe that such displays of enthusiasm may spur freshmen to act out during River...
...existing studies on the efficacy of influenza vaccines. Weighing the data, they conclude that there is insufficient evidence to indicate that flu vaccines reduce infection rates or mortality, even in the elderly. Jefferson, a former British army doctor now based in Rome, spoke with TIME about his quest to spur further research into flu vaccines. (See TIME's special report on how to live...
...same document cites as a challenge the "activist [Obama] Administration," which owns a 61% stake in competitor General Motors and an interest in Chrysler. Under questioning from Democratic Representative John Dingell of Michigan, Lentz denied that the company believed politics helped spur the inquiry. Other reports, however, suggested that Toyota - which has 172,000 U.S. employees and a well-oiled Capitol Hill lobbying operation that has spent nearly $25 million over the past five years - could just as easily be the beneficiary of government favoritism as the victim. (See "Who Benefits from Toyota's Recall Problem...