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...Scott Brown’s election didn’t jettison the notion that the Republican electoral ship had sunk after the 2008 election, the current political climate certainly has. Despite their recent legislative victory in the health-care battle, the Democrats still stand to lose significant ground in the midterm elections. Although punishing sitting presidents with Congressional losses is ingrained in the American political tradition, recent polls suggest that voters may put an unusually severe dent in the Democrats’ current congressional majority. As the leader of his party, President Obama must take it upon himself to stop...
...journey is hilarious: Beard suffers frostbite in a rather uncomfortable place and is very nearly eaten by a polar bear. But even better is the way McEwan deftly contrasts the high ideals of the travelers - who call for a new, greener way of life - with their unacknowledged selfishness. The ship's boot room, where people load and unload their polar gear, and which steadily descends into chaos, becomes a symbol of humanity's problems with planetary management. "How were they to save the earth," Beard wonders, "when it was so much larger than the boot room...
Surgical work has been aided by the U.S. Navy Ship Comfort, for example, which has performed many surgeries offshore before the patients are sent to the Disaster Recovery Center for rehabilitation...
...iPad is much, much bigger than the Touch, and like the Touch only partially abled when away from wi-fi (a version of the iPad that connects to AT&T's 3G network will ship in about a month). But the extra real estate does make a difference. The Touch was convenient. The iPad is intimate. Its weight, though only about a pound and a half, gives it gravity and a sense that it should be more than simply useful. (See the unveiling of Apple's iPad...
...leverage of threatened exclusion from the American financial system to press Dubai's financial services industry into observing U.S. curbs. Iranians in Dubai say they find it increasingly difficult to get credit, even for workaday business dealings. "We have to pay full amounts to the supplier in order to ship the goods to us," says Morteza Masoumzadeh, deputy executive director of the Iranian Business Council in Dubai, whose shipping company focuses on trade with Iran. "If we go to banks and ask for credit facilities they say 'Oh no, you are Iranian, we cannot'. " (See pictures of Iran's presidential...