At the same time, they have attempted to draw the IAEA inspectors into protracted negotiations that would buy time to reach what the Israelis call the "zone of immunity" after which Israel no longer has a viable military option.
In a U-turn from his earlier stance, Mr. Sarkozy has used recent campaign rallies to call for changing the course of euro-zone policies to ensure they are also designed to stimulate growth.
The coalition that is built around that resolution is built around the call for protection of civilians, enforcement of a no-fly zone, and enforcement of an arms embargo.
The European Commission is expected to call for part of the North Sea to be declared a no-go zone for cod fishing ahead of its annual round of negotiations between fisheries ministers.
The local time zone of the contacts are also listed so you know not to call them if they are in a different part of the world in the middle of the night.
Astronomers call the most promising of these places "Goldilocks planets, " because they orbit in a temperate zone not too hot and not too cold to support liquid water essential for carbon-based life as we know it.
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia now are working on a scale they call the "dwell time index" to calculate how much time a planet has orbited in a habitable zone, compared with the time it took life to evolve on Earth.