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...four-year term expires in 2012. If Putin's party does amend the Constitution, extending presidential tenure to five or seven years, as many expect, Putin might yet have his triumphant Kremlin comeback. The question is whether Medvedev's entourage might entice their man to move beyond the playground sandbox to which Putin has relegated the presidency. In the unlikely event Medvedev elects to challenge his mentor, it will quickly become clear which end of the power spectrum is dominant...
...media, it’s that whatever the pundits may prophesize, nothing is for certain. Clinton has shown impressive resilience, even as Obama and others have begun to sound like patronizingly benevolent parents who, sighing, allow their over-enthusiastic child to spend five more minutes in the sandbox...
...Despite the initial reluctance to play in the YouTube sandbox, the campaigns all claim to be looking forward to Wednesday's distinctive format, in which about 40 video questions will be tossed their way, all pre-selected by CNN, which will air the forum from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET. Some of those who submitted questions will be sitting in the studio audience and will be allowed to ask follow up queries, adding a flesh-and-blood town-hall challenge to the candidates as well. When the Democrats participated in their YouTube session four months ago, it produced...
...Neil Cashman thought he had the answer. The University of Toronto scientist had spent his career trying to sift out the misshapen clumps of proteins thought to cause neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that hid in a sandbox of normal proteins. In 2002 he finally succeeded, using a chemical agent to alter normal proteins but not so-called aggregated misfolded ones, leaving the clumps easier to detect. It would become the formula for a diagnostic kit usable by blood banks everywhere...
...Draped in vegetation and occasionally sporting solar panels, the homes are Norman Rockwell meets Al Gore. "We were drawn by the fact that this was an environmentally based community," says Alison Cohn, 36, watching from her front porch as her 4-year-old son Asher digs in a nearby sandbox. "But it's when I see how much my kids love it here that I really know we made the right choice...