One analyst says that even with signs of cooling growth, “the basic structure of the economy is still O.K.”

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Chinese Economic Growth Slipped Again in 4th Quarter

On the basic question of personal popularity, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former House speaker Newt Gingrich get roughly equally positive ratings from conservatives, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll . But Gingrich has a slight advantage in some core GOP groups on “strongly favorable” numbers, one that reflects his new-found support from conservatives in the race for the Republican nomination. The latest round of national polls shows Gingrich securing the support of the GOP’s crucial conservative base, surpassing Romney at the expense of embattled Herman Cain. Read full article > >

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Gingrich and Romney equally well liked among conservatives

“Unbuilt Washington” is the National Building Museum’s best chance at drawing blockbuster crowds in years. Devoted to the might-have-beens in the wastebasket of Washington’s design history, it begins with variations on the basic city plan laid out by Pierre L’Enfant in 1791 and ends with a spectacular sculptural bridge the museum would like to construct in the enormous atrium of the Pension Building. Read full article > >

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Critic’s review of ‘Unbuilt Washington’ at the National Building Museum

Recent discoveries in cell biology have complicated the basic principles of the last decade of cancer research.

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Cancer’s Secrets Come Into Sharper Focus

Successive reviews into the University of East Anglia climate e-mail hack cast no doubt on the basic picture of global warming, the government says.

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Climate reviews ‘leave science ok’

President Obama made one of the most important speeches of his presidency on Wednesday. It was an eloquent defense of his basic approach to government and outlined specifically how he would tackle the nation’s long-term debt problems. For people who have been searching for Barack Obama’s core beliefs, this speech is perhaps the single best place to start — though it fell short in one important aspect.

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Obama deficit speech reveals his core beliefs

The pillar of the basic Web address – the trusty .com domain – is about to face vast new competition that will dramatically transform the Web as we know it. New Web sites, with more subject-specific, sometimes controversial suffixes, will soon populate the online galaxy, such as .eco, .love, .god…

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Washington – The Barack Obama administration’s claim of “progress” in its war strategy is based on the military seizure of three rural districts outside Kandahar City in October. But those tactical gains have come at the price of further exacerbating the basic U.S. strategic weakness in Afghanistan – the antagonism toward the foreign presence shared throughout the Pashtun south. read more

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Gains in Kandahar Came With More Brutal US Tactics

The European Space Agency’s (Esa) new intake of astronauts complete their basic training.

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Europe’s new astronauts graduate

With bombs the main killer of Americans in Afghanistan, the U.S. started an effort to stop the flow of ammonium nitrate, their basic ingredient, into the country.

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U.S. Tries to End Flow of Bomb Item to Afghanistan