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...polls voted yes, and though turnout was just 42%, the result was a big win for supporters of the document, which extends the E.U.'s reach into areas like immigration and asylum; recalibrates voting procedures among member states; and creates the positions of E.U. President and E.U. Foreign Minister - basic requirements, backers say, for a Europe that punches its weight on the world stage. Hoping to ride Spain's momentum, the government of the Netherlands - where disenchantment with the E.U. is on the rise - quickly set June 1 for its referendum. The French are also considering advancing their planned ballot...
...actions will affect others. And as men age, they tend to lose more tissue from a part of the brain located just behind the forehead that concerns itself with consequences and self-control. Generally speaking, the brain of a female is more interlinked and--if one assumes that a basic requirement of the post is to avoid dividing the faculty into two sweaty mobs--may be better suited for the kind of cautious diplomacy required of a high-profile university leader. Of course, to borrow a line from Summers, "I would prefer to believe otherwise...
According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, total government research funding would increase by a mere 0.6 percent, well short of the two percent increase needed to keep up with inflation, while basic research funding would decrease by one percent. Other departments’ budgets have been devastated. The Department of Energy’s Office of Science, responsible for funding research into cleaner, more efficient energy, will see its funding reduced by almost 4 percent below the level appropriated by Congress...
...what’s the truth beneath these delicious falsehoods? Well, at a very basic level, Meloy is a bespectacled young thirtysomething from Helena, Montana with a degree in creative writing and a uniquely nasal singing voice. In 2001, while living in Portland, he and a handful of similarly-minded individuals formed a band called the Decemberists, named after the group of Russian insurgents who unsuccessfully tried to stage a coup against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. That brand of exotic, obscure, and only-half-serious historical reference has come to define the work of the band, from their...
...that car gets competition from the 1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK, customized along almost sinister lines by Italian Count Carlo Felice Trossi. In the '30s it was still common for auto firms to deliver their most luxurious cars merely as a chassis, engine and drive train, sometimes also with a basic body, leaving it to the buyer and his "coach builder" to finish the product along their own lines. With his now forgotten British builder, Trossi crafted a long body with pontoon fenders that ended in tapering points. So did the swelling tongue of the trunk, creating a three-pronged effect...