Helping them to close their books in September would not deal with the banks' basic challenges: how to write off bad loans and where to get the money to do it.

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The basic problem is that the human brain struggles to envision anything close to an unbiased view of our place in the future.

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"We're trying to cut that amount of time that they had to be in those close quarters, " NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said, noting the spacecraft has a basic bathroom but little living space.

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Some folks in Washington also want to close the deficit by gutting our investments in things like clean energy or medical research or basic science.

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About two-thirds of those surveyed said they already have the basic requirement for home charging: a 3-prong, 120-volt outlet located close to the vehicle, typically in a garage, carport or driveway.

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The application is one of a number of voice-friendly third-party applications for the iPhone that have helped close the gap between the iPhone and mobile phones that have long given users the ability to perform basic tasks, like dialing phone numbers, with voice commands.

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In the Oslo Declaration, adopted at the close of the meeting, they also urged development partners to increase official development assistance and give priority to investment in basic education.

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