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...since World War II. But the former physics lecturer is not one to get carried away with fripperies like opinion polls. A participant at a recent meeting with business leaders in Berlin tells how she batted away praise. "This won't last forever," she told her audience. "The real test is yet to come. The proof of the pudding is in domestic policies." Sober - and accurate. Merkel heads up a grand coalition with her former adversaries, the Social Democratic Party (spd), and must find consensus on ways to revitalize the economy, repair the health system and boost employment. Victories...
...border and then coordinates the cows getting back to the rightful owners in Mexico." Ladd acknowledges that his do-it-yourself cattle diplomacy is "breaking both countries' laws." How so? "[In] the United States, you're supposed to quarantine any Mexican cattle for 30 days, and they test them for disease and everything else. What the problem is, there isn't enough cattle inspectors to do that, and then they don't have a holding corral anymore to do that...
...pleased as I was with the product, there were some things that rubbed me the wrong way. Every other portable navigator that I have tested shuts off when I turn off the ignition of my car. Even those that run on batteries offer to stay on but automatically shutting down if I don?t answer. The Nav-U stays on unless you manually turn it off; several times during my test I forgot to shut it down, and ended up draining the battery...
...hoped the result would be better than this," says Dr. John Treanor of the University of Rochester in New York. But Treanor, who led the study, says he was neither surprised nor discouraged by the result. A previous test of a more experimental avian flu vaccine reached a similar conclusion last year...
...Launched as an evaluation tool in 1998, the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test, or FCAT, is already being used to grade schools and distribute funds. Now critics like the state's biggest teachers union argue the test is about to be used for another task for which it was never designed. Can test scores accurately rank the physical education teacher whose encouragement prompts a student to improve math scores or the art teacher whose class is the only reason a 17-year-old stays in school, those same critics ask. How, in short, do you financially apportion the contributions of everyone...