Word: washingtonization
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...significant is that the study lines up well with other, more rigorous studies finding a 1% rate of autism. "It provides what scientists call convergent validity: no matter how you shake the bushes, you come up with this 1%," says Richard Roy Grinker, an autism researcher at George Washington University who has worked to determine ASD prevalence in South Korea...
...IRGC's rise presents both threats and opportunities. The sepah is responsible for the very things that most concern Washington: Iran's drive for nuclear weapons and its support of terrorism. Guardsmen hold several key positions in the Supreme National Security Council, through which they are thought to control the levers of Iran's nuclear and missile programs. And an IRGC unit known as the Quds Force provides training and weapons to Hizballah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Palestinian territories and the Mahdi Army in Iraq. But some analysts think that growing commercial interests may have taken the edge...
...special relationship committed us to the senseless war in Iraq. If the release of al-Megrahi really was done to further British interests in Libya, it was still the decision of an independent democracy and no different from what the U.S. would have done in similar circumstances. Chris Washington, CHEADLE, ENGLAND...
...special relationship committed us to the senseless war in Iraq. If the release of al-Megrahi really was done to further British commercial interests in Libya, it was still the decision of an independent democracy and no different from what the U.S. would have done in similar circumstances. Chris Washington, Cheadle, England...
...therefore energy use, will hurt economic growth and their ability to eradicate poverty. This is immoral, they say, especially because the West had a couple centuries of growth unhindered by emission caps. Western capitals point out that growth will be irrelevant if global warming continues. During the Bush Administration, Washington also argued that there was no point to the U.S. and other rich nations reducing their emissions unless China and India agreed to limits. Developing nations contribute a minority of emissions now, but in a few years they will become the biggest emitters and their actions will decide the fate...