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…hly uncertain. The 2.5 bcf/d from the Wasit project is about the amount of gas that would be needed to meet incremental power demand and displace 300 thousand bpd of crude burn, assuming gas demand does not grow in other sectors, which is unlikely. Hence, it is likely that Saudi’...

…ture relations between Americans and Chinese generally runs along a nervously familiar historical track: An established power (the US) anda rising one (China) consider each other. Do they cooperate? Scratch at each other in constant annoyance? Each nation possesses a different im...

…ons, basic thoughts solidify into larger fantasies. As these narratives ("Our courts will never allow that," "As a superpower we will always be able to win any fight we put our minds to," "Assimilation will ensure Muslims are westernized" ...) gain consent from others they tend t...

…United States and Cuba, which had been interrupted since January 3, 1961, some 54 years ago, when Ike Eisenhower was in power in Washington and Fidel Castro in Havana. The President of the United States, Barack Oba ma, and his Secretary of State, John Kerry, among many other pers...

powerful room-cleaning robot was a Roomba, which moved around vacuuming at random and squeaked when it got caught under the couch. Technological prediction is particularly chancy, given that technologies progress by a series of refinements, halted by obstacles and overcome by in...

…ow to complete the transition to democracy here. Here’s why. After the ouster of Mubarak in February, his presidential powers were shifted to a military council, led by the defense minister. It’s an odd situation, or as the Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany, author of “The Yacoub...

…lationships" and other relationships that don't make it to secondary level. Sometimes a primary partner will have "veto power" -- 1.¢., if one partner wants to get a new partner, then the primary partner can explicitly block that partner. This seems to help control a lot of jealo...

…ed for European companies broadly, but not for European utilities. Concerns about political intervention along with low power and carbon prices have prevented a re-rating of the sector. However, we are comfortable that we are close to a bottom, and that optionality is asymmetrica...

…sy sense: This order is slipping from American control. Look back just two decades. Then America stood as the sole superpower, the global leader in finance and economics and technology - and embracing other nations into rules we’d written. Today, allies and enemies alike wonder:...

packets or financial vouchers. Protocols embody shared rules. Their subtle, decisive power is to place each bit of data ina reliable, predictable order, just as diplomatic protocol might seat ambassadors at a negotiation. “Protocol,” the theorists Alexander Galloway and Eugene Th...

…ar, which we believe—illuminating as they do the Court's interpretive methodology when it comes to federal criminal law—powerfully demonstrate the substantive vulnerability of the USAO's unprecedented employment of three federal laws. That Office's interpretation would never pass...

68 Such a fascination with the power of government-held secrets has always been a core concern of radical libertarians. In his 1956 book The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Security Policies, the sociologist Edward Shils brilliantly dissects the f...

…idify into larger fantasies. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025030 As these narratives ("Our courts will never allow that," "As a superpower we will always be able to win any fight we put our minds to," "Assimilation will ensure Muslims are westernized" ...) gain consent from others they tend t...

powerful room-cleaning robot was a Roomba, which moved around vacuuming at random and squeaked when it got caught under the couch. Technological prediction is particularly chancy, given that technologies progress by a series of refinements, halted by obstacles and overcome by in...

Already some baby boomers are able to remotely lock their parents’ doors, track calls coming into their homes and even see who is ringing the doorbell, in many cases right from their smart phones. Systems such as QuietCare, WellAWARE, FineThanx and SimplyHome are already fixtures...