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...issue is straightforward enough, even if few countries have ever had to deal with it on this scale before: thanks primarily to its thriving export industries, China has $1.4 trillion (and counting) in its pocket, and has to put it somewhere. For years, the investment of choice has been the drab solidity of U.S. Treasury bonds. But as the dollar drops, and higher returns can be gained elsewhere, China has begun to eye more alluring places to stash some of its cash...
...though, Up Dharma Down needs to deliver that all-important follow-up album, and continue building its fan base. Millare certainly hasn't let the kudos go to her head; in fact, she has set a straightforward goal for the band's immediate future. "The most important thing," she says, "is to be heard." She could be speaking for young musicians in bars all over Manila...
...wasn't so long ago that the candidate who appeared to have laid out a straightforward path for himself to reach the 2008 Republican nomination was John McCain. With the Republican establishment climbing aboard the Straight Talk Express, his campaign budgeted for a $100 million race, in which it would hire all the party's top talent and contend vigorously across...
...That the process proved so straightforward shocked Yamanaka. Scientists had assumed that reprogramming would likely require a complex arrangement of far more genes. "We were very surprised," he says-and with the Hwang debacle on their minds, "we were very worried." Yamanaka had another researcher repeat Takahashi's work, and when they published in the journal Cell in August 2006, he took the unusual step of including every last bit of lab data in the supplementary section of his paper. Still, Yamanaka's results weren't fully accepted until his work was replicated by others-the gold standard of scientific...
...Scripture straightforward on homosexuality? It's impossible to get from Scripture anything straightforwardly positive about same-sex relationships. So if there were any other way of approaching it, you'd have to go back to the first principle of human relationships. Those theologians who've defended same-sex relationships from the Christian point of view in recent decades have said you've got to look at whether a same-sex relationship is capable of something at the level of neutral self-giving that a marriage ought to exemplify. And then ask, is that what Scripture is talking about? That...