After Thursday's theatrical opening in Beijing of the 18th Communist Party Congress, the real action shifted today to behind-the-scenes meetings among kingmakers who will hammer out the deals that decide China's new leadership.
But the mood shifted today, as word filtered out of the meetings that the developing countries would be allowed more leeway in meeting the commitments they made in the last round of talks, known as the Uruguay Round.
Over the past ten or fifteen years, though, Peres's beliefs have shifted; today, he envisions a "new Middle East," a borderless place organized not along the principles of blood and tribe but around high technology and free trade.
Even before the McGreevey administration has hammered out all the details of a deal with the YankeeNets for financing a downtown sports arena in Newark, its focus shifted today to the delicate politics of announcing a plan and getting lawmakers' support, officials familiar with the process said.
The focus of the debate have shifted today to understanding intron gains and losses in the course of the history of eukaryotes, and estimating intron density in the genome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor.
