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Though he cracked jokes and pointed enthusiastically at vibrant red, spiking temperature graphs, Richard B. Alley, a professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, ended his presentation at yesterday’s Harvard climate change symposium with a grave warning...
...were inspired by religious fervor (he reportedly said "Allahu akbar" before opening fire), his exposure to the mental trauma of the soldiers he counseled or other unknown factors may be impossible. Hasan is in intensive care at a San Antonio hospital, breathing without a respirator. But given his mental state, even he may not know what caused him to kill...
...would give their power to supervise and regulate banks to a new, single bank regulator with power to set capital requirements and ensure stability. By contrast, the Frank-Geithner-negotiated bill in the House would do away with only the OTS, leaving the FDIC in charge of state-chartered-bank supervision, the OCC in charge of nationally chartered banks and the Fed in charge of complex financial institutions...
...security crumbles, militants find it easier to operate, according to the risk consultancy Eurasia Group in a research note on Nov. 5. "The Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is establishing more sophisticated infrastructure in Yemen," the report said. "A collapse or severe weakening of the Yemeni state would likely send millions of refugees into Saudi Arabia, threatening stability there." (See TIME's pictures of Saudi women...
...Tokyo, trying to hold fast to its campaign promises to resolve the base issue in step with the needs of Okinawans, has felt diplomatic pressure from the U.S. State Department over the past few weeks to make a firm decision to enable the terms of the 2006 agreement on Futenma. In late October, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pushed Hatoyama to uphold Japan's end of the 2006 agreement. "Secretary Gates played the bad cop so that President Obama won't have to," says Michael Green, senior adviser and Japan chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies...