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...fact, the most basic questions--Is Antarctica as a whole warming or cooling? Is its ice cover thinning or growing?--cannot yet be answered definitively. For one thing, the continent is too big and measurement points are too few and far between. Also, scientists lack the long-term records needed to put the present in perspective...
Lawrence also described Mankiw as a conservative, and said he is likely to continue the basic thrust of Bush’s economic program...
Over the last few years, the president has used the same basic political calculation to ram much of his conservative program down the throats of the American people. He starts with a radically conservative proposal—such as absurdly tough guidelines for military tribunals, lax labor protections in the new Department of Homeland Security and, his latest, abolishing dividend taxes. His far-right base sees him taking a principled stand...
...Iraqi Women. His rheumy eyes can only cope with daylight driving; Aadil, 27, takes over in the evenings. Between them, the men make 37,000 Iraqi dinars ($15) a month. That's not nearly enough to feed the family - even though, like all Iraqis, they get free rations of basic commodities such as flour, rice, cooking oil and sugar from the government. "All the money goes to buy medicines, or vegetables and meat," Nadam says, "we try to limit ourselves to spending 1,500 dinars (60 cents) a day, but the money quickly runs...
...like mirrors. Readers in China find their reflections unflattering. I don't think Chinese critics and readers will be ready for my work until they achieve something fundamental in their lives: an honest attitude and an independent mind. Although my American readers only know China on a very basic level, they are capable of independent thinking, and you can't fool them...