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Confusion has a hold on the largest country of the European Union even two weeks after national elections were held. Never in memory did Germans face such ambiguous results: neither of the two main parties, the center-right Union of Christian Democrats (CDU) and the incumbent Socialist Party (SPD), has achieved the majority required to lead the country, even in coalition with their respective traditional partners, the Liberals for the CDU and the Greens for the SPD. And yet this was an election with a seemingly clear ideological divide: liberal reform to shake Germany out of its economic...
...persuaded in the summer to join a committee to draft the constitution. The U.S. believes that drawing the Sunnis into the political process is the key condition for defeating the insurgency. But even those Sunnis that entered the process have rejected the draft charter, citing several controversial clauses. Their main bone of contention is federalism: while Shiite and Kurdish parties favor strong regional governments with a high degree of autonomy, Sunnis fear this would lead inevitably to the dismemberment of Iraq...
...Abbas's soldiers are posted lazily at the entrance to what used to be the main Israeli settlement bloc. While the citizens of Gaza rip apart the remains of the settlements and tour cheerily around in trucks emblazoned with Hamas flags, the soldiers are making afternoon tea and sheltering from...
...fact, sperm whales are the main predators of giant squid, and the Japanese found the squid by following the whales off the Ogasawara islands, about 1,000 km south of Tokyo. Starting in 2002, the team searched for squid in the area for around two weeks every year, lowering into the waters a digital camera and weighted hooks baited with common squid and mashed shrimp. Depth mattered: the giant squid were believed to live about 1,000 m down. "At that point, our squid-watching turned unmistakably into squid-hunting," says Kubodera. No squid took the bait until Sept...
...main concern is the committee’s ability to agree on the type of general education that undergraduates should receive...