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...seismic readings indicative of a test. Wary of espionage, China wanted to require a two-thirds vote of a 51-nation commission to authorize an inspection, while the United States pushed for a simple majority. In a week and a half of secret negotiations, the two nations agreed to split the difference to require 30 votes, or about 59 percent of the commission...
...seismic readings indicative of a test. Wary of espionage, China wanted to require a two-thirds vote of a 51-nation commission to authorize an inspection, while the United States pushed for a simple majority. In a week and a half of secret negotiations, the two nations agreed to split the difference to require 30 votes, or about 59 percent of the commission...
...unpopular rejection of the big-budget entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. (When the G.O.P. Congress made a feint at Medicare last year, its approval rating plummeted.) The predictable result was a massive increase in the federal deficit, $1.5 trillion over eight years, and a crisis that reopened the split between supply-siders and fiscal conservatives like Dole and George Bush. To this day, movement conservatives resent Dole for pushing through a $98.3 billion tax increase in 1982 followed by another for $50 billion two years later--the undertakings that led Newt Gingrich to call him the "tax collector...
...life emerge spontaneously on earth, or did it come from outer space? The scientific community is sharply split on the question, and the evidence from Mars not only heats up the debate but also adds a tantalizing third possibility: life-forms may have arisen on Mars first and then hitched a ride on a meteorite to Earth--or vice versa. As Stanford University chemist Richard Zare puts it, "Who is to say that we are not all Martians...
...says that this split is the first he can remember between neighbor- up to 10 dollars it was a significant jump for most of our members," said Williams...