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...march 26, President Obama announced that the U.S. and Russia will cut their deployed long-range nuclear arsenals by 30% over seven years. The START Follow-On Treaty, as it is known, is the descendant of a series of Cold War arms-control agreements that had an unlikely progenitor: the spectacular failure of the most ambitious disarmament program ever conceived. The Versailles Treaty of 1919, which was designed to disarm Germany but which failed to prevent World War II, led to a more sober approach to arms control predicated on the belief that conflict is inevitable and a balance...
...wasn't.) Most of the campaign advisers who viewed Palin as untrustworthy and erratic have left McCain's orbit, and his current aides were delighted to apply her star power to their troubled cause. With Palin in the state, they collected e-mail addresses for follow-up contact, raised several hundred thousand dollars and attracted the kind of crowds and media coverage that McCain can no longer bring in on his own. And the Senator continued his conversion from a maverick unafraid to compromise with Democrats to a Republican determined to thwart Obama's agenda, starting with overturning...
...Google's main criterion, von Frank says he likes Greenville's chances. "It's a tight-knit community that comes together to get things done," he says. In short order, thousands of people formed a Google chain. Now Greenville has to wait to see whether faster connections will follow...
...blasts killed at least 12 people Wednesday morning. The leading rebel warlord in those regions, Doku Umarov, who has been linked to al-Qaeda, said in a video posted on a rebel website Wednesday night that he had personally ordered the Moscow strikes, and he vowed that more would follow. Now the government faces intense pressure to renew crackdowns in its most rebellious regions, raising fears of another bloody cycle of revenge. As Prime Minister Vladimir Putin so brashly put it, "It's now a matter of honor for the security forces to scrape them out from the bottom...
...need a more systematic way of doing follow-up,” she says...