• It sets the ceiling for planned EU spending - the equivalent of Europe's credit limit - just below what it is now - at 940 billion euros.

    BBC: He was first in. Will he be first out?

  • But I believe the majority of the American people -- and indeed, the majority of Congress -- members of both parties in Congress -- will see this for what it is -- a tobacco industry smoke screen.

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  • But, again, this is a better question for Senator Corker about what is it that -- what is it that he has to see to come on board.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • No matter how you slice and dice the numbers that are out there, whether you include, clearly sectarian car bombs and IED - improvised explosive devices - no matter what it is, it has come down by about two-thirds since December last year.

    NPR: Petraeus Faces 'Complex' Demands in Iraq

  • What's called stop-and-frisk - it has a lot of other names like community policing - or sort of focusing on, what is it - the broken windows policing as it were?

    NPR: Pick 'Em Up, Lock 'Em Up: Getting Tough On Gangs

  • So the 134-year-old Kohler, Wis. company--still private, still family-owned--is doing what it can to steer folks to its higher-end goods.

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  • "If they do decide to remove the national ban and leave it up to each local sponsoring organization -- and THAT is what is being considered -- it will be because of pressure from those sponsors, because of the negative effects they see the ban creating, etc, " he wrote.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • "Shopping is the most political thing we all do and choosing what we buy - based on where it was made, how it was made and what went into it - is an incredibly significant way of changing things, " said Mr Rice.

    BBC: MPs and potteries campaign for Made in Britain mark

  • It's not false modesty - he knows what he has done and is rightfully proud of it - but an unease about appearing false, being seen as a big-time Charlie, when he is just plain Paul.

    BBC: Sir Paul McCartney: Ordinary yet extraordinary

  • If austerity is leading Europe into deep recession - some are saying it is reminiscent of the 1930s - then what is to be done?

    BBC: Euro crisis: The European maze

  • The Nokia 808 PureView is also capable of capturing a mind-boggling amount of small detail -- this is what allows it to offer up to three times lossless zoom on its 5-megapixel images, with enough pixels from a cropped selection to make up an image.

    ENGADGET: Nokia 808 PureView impressions, camera showdown with the iPhone 4S and HTC One S

  • For me it really is, because they know what - I mean it really is about what are they going to do about Ohio and the middle class, what are they going to do in this country.

    NPR: Candidates Aggressively Court Superdelegates

  • When the agency lowers the outlook on the long-term debt to negative, is it your view that -- what is your view about the significance of that?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • "It's not so much what the hospital, what the coroner, what the medical profession understand the situation to be - it is what is understood by the individuals giving the consent - the parents, " said Mr Cohen.

    BBC: Organs retained at scandal hospital

  • It's a big problem--and growing--but the question is what to do about it, especially since obesity is in large part a byproduct of cheaper food, more cars, greater urban sprawl, more TV and videogames, and less manual labor--all world trends that go well beyond diet plans.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But what they have also said is the setting of the WHS - in terms of how you view it or what you view from - is a concern to them.

    BBC: Science & Environment

  • Dr. ANDERSON: Well, as I understand the bill - I haven't read it in detail - but what it will do is to reduce the financial burden for students in repaying education loans.

    NPR: Congress to Lift Student Loans?

  • The second is that with respect to the actions that we've taken right now, I think -- and the military actions -- it is absolutely important to have great clarity on what that is, and I think that we have done that.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Today -- as websites have multiplied exponentially -- that ratio is a fraction of what it was, while clicks-per-thousand ad rates have been slashed.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Asia Buzz: Online Advertising

  • And going back to -- because I may get the question, is it July 22nd, is it the 23rd -- this is, again, an estimate about what it takes to move something through Congress.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Second, Ari Rapkin, a computer graphics software engineer at ILM, introduces an amazing paradox: What the special-effects crews are doing is often not emulating physics but tweaking it--because storytelling is better served by showing the audience what it expects, not what would actually happen if a 3-foot-tall creature drew his light saber.

    FORBES

  • That's a success story to some, but how success will be defined -- and what it will cost -- is the ongoing debate.

    CNN: Wolves' return to Yellowstone sparks controversy

  • So let me -- just very quickly, let me describe what it is that we have proposed -- and I'm waiting to see what the Republicans propose in turn -- because there's been a lot of misinformation here.

    WHITEHOUSE: Help for Homeowners in the Hardest Hit States

  • Such fast change is not seen among apes, and while Prof Tattersall acknowledges the importance of the move our ancestors made from a tree-dwelling, to a ground-dwelling existence - something which has not affected our primate cousins - he says it is not enough to explain what is observed.

    BBC: Conflict and 'boom-bust' explain humans' rapid evolution

  • No one says that free high school education is a socialist program, now that we know it is not enough, what is the rationale NOT to provide post-secondary education for free after all it is an investment in our next generation.

    FORBES: How To Fix The Student Loan System

  • It's true that a drone is precise, meaning it will hit what it is aimed at -- a building, a bunker or a person.

    CNN: Bring drones out of the shadows

  • He has plenty of logical reasons why the last week of the year is the way to go and while this is debatable -- we think it's the summer when the new models come out -- what's not is, that it almost never make sense to wait.

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  • "I felt really guilty when I started being really moody- but learning it is just what happens- I don't feel so bad anymore".

    BBC: Brain scan study to understand workings of teenage mind

  • Sitting about a half-inch lower on its suspension, and shrouding outrageous 20-inch alloys and Pirelli P Zeros in the wheel wells, the XKR-S looks like what it is: a huge, privileged brat, an upper-class lad with a bad attitude and mouth like a vulcanized black bass.

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  • "Undoubtedly the most spectacular aspect of our 16-year study, is that it has delivered what is now considered to be the best empirical evidence that super-massive black holes do really exist, " said Professor Reinhard Genzel, head of the research team.

    BBC: Black hole confirmed in Milky Way

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