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...climate change could tell you that the solution to global warming is to mitigate global greenhouse gas emissions, and fast. But the political difficulties of mitigation aside (the first major federal cap-and-trade legislation will be up soon in the Senate, and isn't expected to pass), the problem is that the sheer amount of greenhouse gases we've already pumped into the atmosphere has irreversibly bound us to a certain amount of warming over the next several decades - no matter what we do, we'll have to adapt...
Alcohol functions in your body pretty much the same, whether you mix it with caffeine or not: you will be impaired. The problem is, you may not feel as impaired if caffeine is present. A 2006 study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research found that people who drank energy drinks with alcohol felt better than those who drank only alcohol - the former group had significantly less dry mouth and headache. They also perceived their motor coordination to be better, even though it wasn...
...intensely do France's conservatives hate the 35-hour work-week that they're willing to work twice as much every week to do away with it. The problem is that the country's trade unions are as ferociously committed to defending it as an entitlement, leaving the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy appearing to speak from both sides of its mouth on the politically-charged issue. And amid the cacophony and confusion, employees remain suspicious that the government is seeking to extend the working week by stealth...
Democrats have spent much of the past couple of months worrying about the potential damaging effects of the drawn-out nomination battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. But on Saturday they may have a new image problem on their hands: the specter of angry hordes of Clinton supporters showing up at the Washington meeting of the Democratic National Committee's Rules & Bylaws Committee to protest against the disenfranchisement of 2.3 million voters in Florida and Michigan...
...resolution of the Florida and Michigan problem isn't likely to go totally Clinton's way, and this is a situation where a draw is her loss. Since Obama wasn't on the ballot in Michigan, the committee is unlikely to seat the delegation without apportioning Obama at least some delegates. Even if he got just the 55 uncommitted delegates, he'd pull out of Clinton's reach. The Michigan Democratic party's proposal before the committee would give Clinton 69 delegates and Obama 59, a compromise that Clinton vehemently opposes. The committee, meanwhile, seems to be moving toward...