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...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. A former...
According to Harvard officials involved in alcohol and drug education on campus, there remains no definitive reason for the up-tick in Stillman admissions, but they hypothesize that the answer lies in a combination of the College’s amnesty policy and nation-wide increase in alcohol consumption as a result of stress from the economic climate...
...core interests" - issues that stand above and beyond the rest. Taiwan is one. Another - a recent product of its economic surge - is long-term access to the oil, gas and minerals needed to fuel the country's growth for decades to come. Iran, from whom Beijing now buys a tick over 400,000 barrels a day (about 14% of China's total oil imports), is clearly part of that future. But U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently called out Beijing in public to get off the fence and sign on to new, tougher sanctions against Tehran...
...advanced age (all were over 80) makes scientists confident that they are unlikely to carry rare genetic variations that lead to fatal disease, so they can focus on more subtle and common variations. Indeed, one of the participants, a Bushman hunter-gatherer known as !Gubi (the "!" expresses the palatal tick in his native language) was so robust that Hayes could not keep up with him in a rope-skipping competition. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...there have been some problems in execution. Well, I would not deny that, but let me say that given what's on our plate - and you know the list. I don't need to tick them...