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That clearly hasn't happened yet; Brown opposed Obama's proposed taxes on big banks as un-American taxes on success, and Republicans on the Hill remain confident that the larger issue is far too complex for Democrats to turn into a referendum on Wall Street. But Obama is obviously eager to try. The goal of his fight is not necessarily to win. It's to show Americans that he's fighting, and who's fighting against...
...frost starts coming later, though, she says, they can't un-evolve overnight. "The current forests won't immediately start growing taller and stronger," she says. Eventually, the evolutionary process will catch up, as new seedlings without the frost response take over. "In principle, however," says Kuparinen, "this process will take a long time. The rate of evolution is slower than the rate at which climate will change." The forests would thus get no benefit, remaining stunted until seedlings without early dormancy genes can take root and take over...
...Hear Bill Clinton, UN Special Envoy to Haiti, talk about the earthquake...
Official bodies at every level, intent on drawing our attention where it would not otherwise turn, carve the year into un-anniversaries marking those things that haven't happened but apparently should. The new year begins the U.N.'s Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification. It is also the Year for Biodiversity and the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, whose mandate is to build "the defenses of peace in the minds of men." Presumably, the other half of the human population is already sufficiently peaceable...
...have to understand, what I value most is control. That's what my father, our country's heroic founder, the Great Leader Kim il-Sung, desired; it's what I desire; and I've pretty much bet the family jewels that my 26-year-old son, Kim Jong-Un, will want the same thing when he takes over in a few years. Absolute, total control over pretty much everything...