Mr. Wolf has led a team that is supposed to work with the Palestinians on such steps.
If we see no genuine progress on such steps toward government responsibility, the United States should "Afghanize," draw down troops and prepare to mitigate the inevitable humanitarian disaster that will come when the Kabul government falls to the Taliban -- which, in the absence of reform, it eventually and deservedly will.
It is important on such step to describe: model assumptions, model description (e.g. rule-based models list the rules produced in addition to their accuracy and coverage), and results assessment (e.g. why a certain modeling technique and certain parameter settings led to good or bad results).
While there is general agreement on the need for such steps, the government has been stymied by labor unions and other vested interests that form bases of support for Mr. Schröder's center-left Social Democratic Party.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell reportedly called General Musharraf twice on Thursday to press for such steps, which Indian leaders have been demanding under threat of war.
Britain and France are pushing for the U.N. to create a no-fly zone over the country, and while the U.S. may be persuaded to sign on, such a move is unlikely to win the backing of veto-wielding Security Council members Russia and China, which traditionally object to such steps as infringements on national sovereignty.
American officials say Iran has handed over Al Qaeda members in the past to Saudi Arabia and perhaps Pakistan, but there is disagreement on whether such steps were significant or sincere.
Some analysts, however, are now beginning to believe that Beijing may hold off on any such steps for the time being; they caution that China may not start to reaccelerate until late 2012 or even early 2013.
Our data support a model in which polyQ peptides containing strong β-hairpin encouraging motifs only rarely form β-hairpin conformations in the monomer ensemble, but nonetheless take on such conformations at key steps during amyloid formation.
Since time would be needed to test Iran's sincerity about disclosures, and its cooperation with the atomic energy agency after years of delay and deceit, Iran's willingness to undertake such steps early on would both be a prerequisite for, and a signal of, progress on the negotiations.
But while Mr. Alders takes such steps on his farm here, doing so is largely up to individual contract farmers.
