China s rulers may have stalled democratic trends for now, but the current strategy has, perhaps, merely delayed the inevitable.

Big bangs in institutional reform, however, may generate more harm than good.

If those talks are successful, they may yield cuts of up to one third of all strategic nuclear warheads.

The Board notes that the UNOPS action plan may give rise to restructuring and rationalization processes to maintain sustainability.

As the Stuxnet virus that infected Iran s nuclear program showed, software attacks can have very real physical effects.

STOCKHOLM History often moves with small steps, but such steps sometimes turn out to have big implications.

More problematic, a misdiagnosis can lead to treatments that impair the healing process.

The war did not bring forth a real decision.

STOCKHOLM History often moves with small steps, but such steps sometimes turn out to have big implications.

6.5 The Committee's established jurisprudence states that it is only necessary to exhaust those remedies that have some prospect of success.

Little has come of these arguments.

So it may be premature for the Party to celebrate the success of its adaptive strategy. China s rulers may have stalled democratic trends for now, but the current strategy has, perhaps, merely delayed the inevitable.

All his requests to be released had no results.

1. Confirms that the special session should result in

Putin s return to the Kremlin, although painful, could end up curtailing their agony by triggering the regime s destruction.

Continuing disputes in Congress about the precise details of reform could, therefore, have an economic cost if a perception that the system will not be overhauled gains ground.

With too many construction workers and too few jewelers, greater demand may result in higher jewelry prices rather than more output.

Some scientists predict that climate change will cause severe disruptions, such as weather related natural disasters, droughts, and famines, which may lead to enormous loss of life.

According to official sources, nobody died in the confrontation.

The outgrowths of humanitarian crises usually have potentially disastrous consequences for peace and security.

Denmark sincerely hopes that those discussions will have a positive outcome.

Any short term economic benefits are welcome byproducts, not the main deliverables that can be planned.

Continued crackdowns would result in a military dictatorship, while an accommodation with the protest movement would produce some kind of consensual semi democratic government.

Although the funds and programmes of the United Nations development system had devoted considerable energy and resources to the reform process, it had not always produced the anticipated results.

Our choices will result in different outcomes and different costs.

The randomness of the political process could easily produce outcomes that reduce its independence.

PARIS Few state visits have lasting results.

Along with Syria, two issues will determine this new Middle East s future Egypt s path under the Muslim Brotherhood, and the outcome of confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program and regional role.

Finally, a completely different approach may come from telomere studies when telomeres, the ever shortening ends of chromosomes, are artificially extended in mice, the mice die prematurely of cancer.

These three countries experiences make it clear that there are different paths to universal insurance, and that a serious attempt to enroll the uninsured can have dramatic results.

Trickle down economics does not work an increase in GDP can actually leave most citizens worse off.

The European stress tests, by themselves, were reassuring and produced no surprises.

All other combinations would either exceed the budget or yield a lower payoff.

The October elections produced no clear majority in the Council.

Unfortunately, many of the proposed green substitutions, however well intentioned, may not address these limitations adequately and could, in fact, produce worse outcomes.

Demonstrations alone almost never topple a regime, but they can do so in combination with other political shifts, which can happen suddenly.

But, absent a fundamental policy revamp, the most that this can deliver is a few months of relative financial calm, albeit at a cost for the subsequent future.

But uncoordinated action could result in a vicious cycle of retaliation, turning the currency war into a full blown trade showdown, with serious consequences for all parties involved.

I believe that China s innovative model for development is likely to help it weather both the gathering economic crisis and any resulting social and political unrest.

The financial fallout from the debt crisis could also result in huge losses for China.

A boycott would merely provoke nationalist hostility in China.

But playing Erdoğan s game only reinforces his sense of invincibility.

Ideally, the model should produce similar results to what has happened historically.

It hoped that those improvements would lead to effective changes in application.

The first is America s self imposed fiscal cliff, which, if not avoided, could throw the United States into recession, with massive repercussions for the world economy, and thus for Europe. Second, a hot war in the Persian Gulf, in which Israel and or the US confronts Iran over its nuclear program, would result in a sharp rise in global energy prices.