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...Before GM made its sudden U-turn on Nov. 3, Merkel had also been riding high. She was coming off an electoral victory in September and had just given a rousing speech before a joint session of Congress in Washington. The timing of the bombshell from GM had to sting. Then on Thursday came another blow: the carmaker's announcement that it would cut 10,000 jobs across Europe...
...during a series of unusually prolific jellyfish seasons ? over the past five years. This summer, jellyfish outbreaks forced numerous resorts along the Mediterranean coast to shut their beaches. In Corsica and Tuscany, several swimmers were wounded by Portuguese man-of-wars, jellyfish-like creatures with a potentially fatal sting. In Tunisia, a swarm of jellyfish engulfed a fish farm, killing the year's production of sea bass and sea bream...
...coalition party, the Free Democrats, and campaigned primarily on economic and finance issues. He was forced to scale back his demands for deep tax cuts in the coalition talks, and his demand to turn Germany into a nuclear weapon-free zone may have been agreed partly to assuage the sting of compromise. Merkel said that she would be seeking the withdrawal within the context of NATO, rather than as a unilateral measure. "We don't want to act in this matter on our own," she said. (See a pictorial history of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall...
...attempted espionage charges, was a respected U.S. scientist who had worked on the Star Wars missile-shield effort and helped discover water on the moon. But around 2006 or so, investigators became suspicious that Nozette was secretly working for a foreign government, and in September they launched a sting: an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer asked the 52-year-old to provide sensitive material. He allegedly coughed up a treasure trove of top secret information about U.S. early-warning systems, satellites, communications intelligence and military and defense strategy. If the high-flying scientist was seeking adventure...
...often kneaded by hand from raw cotton. The physicality of Agus' finished piece, with letters extruding from crenellated surfaces, is one way his print works are unique. The use of repetition is also striking. Suwage is already well known for political commentary. With printing, his barbs have even greater sting. "The message becomes much stronger than on a single canvas work," says Tan Boon Hui, director of the Singapore Art Museum, "because there is more layering and there are more permutations...