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...coming-of-age of the 35-year-old Airbus, and underscores the fact that the world's two major commercial airplanemakers - Airbus and Boeing - are at each other's throats as never before. Although the U.S. government and the European Union reached a temporary deal last week to avoid a battle about government subsidies in the World Trade Organization, the two sides were sniping at each other again less than 24 hours later, when Forgeard said aircraft "launch aid" - no-risk loans from European governments - wasn't "part of the past." A spokesman for the U.S. trade representative fired back...
...through silence." As the number and seriousness of incidents increases, many parents worry that the problem is spiraling out of control. They are demanding that schools and policymakers do something - and in response, governments and educational authorities are devising new ways to tackle the problem: giving children strategies to avoid being picked on, and giving teachers more training to deal with the perpetrators. To make a difference, though, authorities must first understand why bullying is burgeoning now. That's not easy, since its worst forms happen during the early teen years, just when most youths stop talking to their elders...
...turns out he meant it. As Bush takes the oath of office and begins his second term this week, he is preparing to bet his presidential legacy on the very issue that Republicans have been doing their best to avoid for decades. Transforming Social Security is Bush's biggest domestic political gamble--audacious even for a President who prides himself on audaciousness--and one that could reshape far more than a single government program. Those who believe in it most deeply say it could redefine politics itself, putting Republican principles in a position to dominate for the next half-century...
...overturn the idea that early mammals were tiny and timid. That had been eroding anyway with occasional discoveries of teeth and bone fragments that hinted at larger creatures. Now paleontologists can stop cooking up theories to explain why mammals were so little--that they had to be small to avoid being found, for example, or they couldn't grow larger because dinosaurs already occupied those ecological niches...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...