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German skepticism about the utility of big government-spending programs endures, bolstering Merkel's determination to resist international pressure to take more decisive action to counter the economic crisis. Among those arguing forcefully against any new stimulus packages is the Taxpayers' Federation. Holznagel says that in the early 1990s his organization kept to itself doubts about the big spending on reunification - it was politically foolish to do otherwise. But now, he says, "the situation is completely different. The danger is always that money is spent neither appropriately nor efficiently...
...have an idea. It's like a romantic and comedic show with a little bit of action thrown in. That's the best broad definition I can give...
...curtsied too low to a duchess and caught a heel in her pearls. The Buckleys weren't plutocrats, but William's prodigious output--he could bash out a 700-word column in five minutes flat--and Patricia's inheritance made them more than well off, and the action leaps nimbly from the family's teak-and-mahogany yacht to its 10th century Swiss château to Patricia's memorial service at the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur...
...ground in Africa and Asia surveilling wild animals and the people who live in proximity to them for new pathogens. These "sentinel populations" will provide early warning when a new virus emerges; if a dangerous disease is discovered as soon as it crosses from animals to people, quick action can contain it--but only if we're looking. "Tens of millions for surveillance could save us the hundreds of billions it would cost to deal with a pandemic," says Peter Daszak, president of the Wildlife Trust. "An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure...
...dancing," says Yuri Bogomolov, 79, a former scientist at a Soviet-era aerospace lab. "We have a lot of patriotism, but the U.S. has a lot of money [to put into its space program]," he adds as he watches a clip from White Sun of the Desert, a Soviet action-adventure film that cosmonauts traditionally - and superstitiously - watch before blasting off, ever since Gagarin watched it and returned alive from his first space flight. But Bogomolov has confidence that Russia can regain its standing as a space superpower. "[Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin is a strong leader. Now we know...