This move from Beijing, assuming it will be backed up with action, will allow the G-20 to get back onside.

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Membership will make it much easier for British scientists to propose experiments and to get access to facilities like a zero-G plane, which generates short periods of weightlessness by flying a series of parabolas in the sky.

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To get a closer look at the Now Network's flavor of the Optimus G, go below to see a full gallery of images and then head past the break for a video tour.

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Stop us if you've heard this one before, but we had the opportunity to get our hands on the LG Optimus G... again.

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Because she will be selling packaged foods in her store (e.g. chips and pop-tarts), she also has to get a health department license and inspection.

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Roubini, like his colleague Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group, stressed the concept of a G-Zero world, where no global hegemon can elicit strong support to get policy enacted.

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The hardest card to get, Mr. Ziegler recalls, was the one for Stephen G.

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Japan wants to be the first nation in the G-7 to issue a sovereign sukuk bond--that is, if Britain doesn't get there first.

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Mr. ERIC GORRELL (Zero G Aerospace): It doesn't really matter what it is to a lot of these people when you get the e-mails and read the e-mails.

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