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G-8 summit gives chance to gauge Medvedev's power

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Dmitry Medvedev's grand debut on the world stage at the Group of Eight summit Monday promises insights into the riddle all Kremlinologists are trying to crack: Is he calling any of the shots as Russia's president - or is he merely a puppet of Vladimir Putin?

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G-8 summit gives chance to gauge Medvedev’s power

OTB News (Free subscription) | yesterday

MOSCOW (AP) — Dmitry Medvedev’s grand debut on the world stage at the Group of Eight summit Monday promises insights into the riddle all Kremlinologists are trying to crack: Is he calling any of the shots as Russia’s president - or is he merely a puppet of Vladimir Putin'…

Key Gauge Edged Up In May, But Economy May Be Verging On Decline

Nikkei (Free subscription) | yesterday

Key Gauge Edged Up In May, But Economy May Be Verging On DeclineTOKYO (Nikkei)--The economy may have been teetering on the brink of a downturn in recent months despite a 1.3-point gain in May of a key economic indicator, the Cabinet Office said Friday.

G-8 summit gives chance to gauge Medvedev's power

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

Dmitry Medvedev's grand debut on the world stage at the Group of Eight summit Monday promises insights into the riddle all Kremlinologists are trying to crack: Is he calling any of the shots as Russia's president - or is he merely a puppet of Vladimir Putin?

G-8 summit gives chance to gauge Medvedev's power

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday

Dmitry Medvedev's grand debut on the world stage at the Group of Eight summit Monday promises insights into the riddle all Kremlinologists are trying to crack: Is he calling any of the shots as Russia's president -- or is he merely a puppet of Vladimir Putin?

U.S. Future Inflation Gauge Falls

ECRI News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008

"Despite higher oil prices and the weaker dollar, the USFIG continues to slide as underlying inflation pressures in the U.S. remain in a cyclical downtrend"

EZ Inflation Gauge Races to 17-Year High

ECRI News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008

Euro zone inflationary pressures leaped to a 17-year high in May, led by a sharp pick-up in Germany, a forward-looking inflation indicator published by the Economic Cycle Research Institute showed on Thursday.

Heritage steam locomotive unveiled

Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday

PALAKKAD: Palakkad Railway Divisional Manager A.K. Harit unveiled YP 2204, a heritage steam locomotive, at the Olavakkode Divisional Office, here on Friday. This meter gauge, passenger-class locomotive was imported from Germany in 1954 and ...

Line doubling to be over by December

Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday

PALAKKAD: Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager H.R. Harit has said the doubling of the broad gauge line between Shoranur and Mangalapuram will be completed by December this year. The work on the new Kannur-Valapattanam and the ...

Shocka! Dems Less Proud of America Than GOP

Environmental Republican (Free subscription) | yesterday

I know, I know, don't question their patriotism: The United States is at the head of the list, followed by Venezuela, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, the Philippines and Israel rounding out the top 10. It was no random gauge of passing sentiment. Respondents were asked to rate exactly how proud they were of their nation in 10 areas, including politics, history,

Gas prices hit another high for holiday weekend

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday

Fireworks aren't the only thing skyrocketing on this Fourth of July. The price of gas has hit another all-time high. The AAA fuel-gauge report puts the national average price of a gallon of regular at a fraction over $4.10. The price of premium as of today is...

Assembly powers group revealed

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

16 people to gauge support for a possible referendum on further powers for the Welsh assembly are named.

What's your patriotic IQ?

Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday

Do you know John Adams from John Hancock? A lot of high-school students don't, so Florida is reworking its standards for teaching social studies in public schools. Gauge your patriotic IQ with the quiz below. The questions are from a test given to U.S. college freshmen and seniors. For answers, and more on how social-studies education might change in Florida, turn to Page A8.

Quantum gravity as a Fermi liquid. (arXiv:0807.0225v1 [hep-th] CROSS LISTED)

Arxiv (Free subscription) | yesterday

We present a reformulation of loop quantum gravity with a cosmological constant and no matter as a Fermi-liquid theory. When the topological sector is deformed and large gauge symmetry is broken, we show that the Chern-Simons state reduces to Jacobson's degenerate sector describing 1+1 dimensional propagating fermions with nonlocal interactions. The Hamiltonian admits a dual description which we realize...

Pollution emission permits delayed

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

The issuance of pollution emission permits will be delayed, as more time is needed to gauge public opinion, an official with the Ministry of Environmental Protection said yesterday. "There is no timetable for issuance of the permits," th ...