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...Doing things over is one thing; overdoing them is another. Amid all their taking of pains, Yorkin and Lear rarely forget the importance of not being earnest. Their shows are, after all, only situation comedies. The scripts, however inventive, tend more toward formula than organic form. The characterizations are still exaggerated cutouts from the fabric of real life...
...another and participating developing countries. Because climate change is a global problem, its solution is ideally suited to an international-trading regime. Such trading is the key to solving the political puzzle on climate change as well. It is widely predicted that the developing countries, whose industrial processes tend to be less efficient today, will be able to reduce carbon emissions at far lower cost than will the industrialized nations. Countries would choose to make reductions in the hope of making money--in effect financing the upgrade of their industrial plant by selling emissions credits to nations in the West...
...initial Big Bang some 15 billion years ago. They immediately set out to learn more. For one thing, they began trying to probe this cosmic afterglow for subtle variations in intensity. It's clear through ordinary telescopes that matter isn't spread evenly throughout the modern universe. Galaxies tend to huddle relatively close to one another, dozens or even hundreds of them in clumps known as clusters and superclusters. In between, there is essentially nothing...
...Certainly there is no shortage of professional jealousy among historians, and crossover acts like Ellis' tend to attract a particular amount of scorn. But some historians believe that Ellis' stumble could serve as a valuable lesson to his public. "Readers have to understand that whatever objective claims historians may make, they are invested in the things they write," says Michael Zuckerman, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "History can't just be the production of the historian. It has to be the collaboration of a skeptical historian and certainly a skeptical reader...
...president also has to tend to conservative members in his own party. Republican senators are drafting dozens of amendments to pick apart the Democrats' measure. "It's going to be hit by armor-piercing incendiaries," vows GOP conservative Phil Gramm. White House aides laugh at Gramm's colorful opposition, but conservatives are angry about a series of administration apostasies on education, taxes and defense. There is no great rush to give Dashcle his first victory. But the White House knows that passage may mean fighting through a filibuster threat from members of its own party...