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...which later gave up its weapons (South Africa). Clearly, the non-proliferation strategies employed to this date are working fairly well. The development of an Iranian nuclear weapon, then, could double the number of nuclear-armed nations in a small fraction of that time, representing a major setback for the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons. This would mark a return to a Cold War-like era in which a danger of nuclear war is a real, imminent, and most dangerous threat facing policymakers...
...been done before,” Wohn said. “By being denied the webcast, Joel is losing his constitutional right to a public trial.” The Tenenbaum team will continue to pursue all available legal avenues and cannot yet view this reversal as a setback, said Nesson, who told the Boston Globe that he intended to appeal the Web-casting decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. “We’re going forward with the same issues as we would have in January, except without the Internet,” he said. Nesson said...
...thinking, ‘uh Jesus.’ They’re really enthusiastic, they can learn, definitely—but they need somebody they can grow around, somebody to feed off of,” Crocker says. “We’ll have an inevitable setback for a year or two, until we start developing one or two players with more game experience...
...Emma Spiro paired up to score Penn’s next five goals at the end of the first half. Spiro scored off a free position shot with less than a second left in the period, bringing the score to 9-4 at the halftime whistle. Despite the late setback in the first half, Harvard continued to play at a solid pace to kick off the second frame. While the Quakers did claim the first goal only two minutes into the second half, Harvard took charge of the game and closed the gap to just three goals within ten minutes...
China's Gift to Taiwan: Fake Pandas! Taipei Times "Taiwan-China relations were dealt a severe setback yesterday when it was found that Taipei Zoo's "pandas" are not what they seem. Zookeepers discovered at feeding time yesterday that the two pandas are in fact Wenzhou brown forest bears that had been dyed to create the panda's distinctive black-and-white appearance. The Taipei Zoo's head of ursidae ex-procynidae care, Connie Liu... said she became suspicious when the pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan began to spend almost all of their waking hours having sex. Pandas...