... like Switzerland have entertained capping compensation so that what the highest-paid workers take-home can’t exceed 12 times what the lowest-paid employees make (though a referendum to that effect was defeated at the polls), America’s business culture -- indeed its national mythology -- feeds on the possibility of ...
... s known as yellowcake powder and then converted to a gas. Uranium oxide contains two main parts, or isotopes: uranium-235 and uranium-238. To make an atomic bomb or power a nuclear power plant, the uranium needs to contain more of the uranium-235 than the uranium-238. That ...
... supporters, have raised fresh questions about who gets to represent the United States abroad. SEN. MARCO RUBIO, R-Fla.: Mr. Mamet, have you been to Argentina? NOAH BRYSON MAMET, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina-Designate: Senator, I haven't had the opportunity yet to be there. GWEN IFILL: That response ...
... $780 billion a year, as of Wednesday's announcement), investments are flowing out of risky areas. Some of these countries are facing absolute crises, with Argentina's currency plummeting by more than 20 percent in under one month. That means investments in Argentina are worth 20 percent less in dollar ...
... July 2013, when the pontiff stated that homosexuals shouldn't be marginalized "if they accept the Lord and have good will." Aguilar's comments could make for bad press for a church that has only recently begun to sway public opinion in its favor under Pope Francis. According to Gallup ...
... It essentially means that as long as coercion is not being enacted, I have no issue with what is happening. So that would, I guess, make me a philosophical libertarian. Paul Solman: Not an anarchist? Jonathan Mohan: No. no. Paul Solman: And so what have you discovered as you've ...
SILVINA IAZURLO, Argentina (through interpreter): I'm worried. It seems to me that her head is her biggest asset. She is someone who's very intelligent, and having to have an operation, regardless of how simple it is, always has it risks. I'm very worried that there won't ...
The Supreme Court began its new term Monday by turning away hundreds of appeals, including Virginia's bid to revive its anti-sodomy law. The justices took the bench just past 10 o'clock on the first Monday in October, even as much of the rest of the government was coping with a partial shutdown.
This picture of Earth from space was taken in June 2001 from the International Space Station orbiting at an altitude of 211 nautical miles. Photo by NASA. Okay, so it's kind of gimmicky, but it's all in the spirit of planetary science -- or more accurately interplanetary science. So let's give it up for NASA's...
Rep. Ed Markey faces Rep. Stephen Lynch in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Photo by Freddy Wheeler/WEBN-TV via Flickr. Six months ago, Massachusetts voters were in the middle of one of the fiercest Senate battles of the election season. They ousted Sen. Scott Brown, the Republican who had surprised the nation and delighted the tea party, in...
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