Cobble Systems

'Nanny Diaries' authors return with new Nanny tale
AP Online; 12/15/2009; 1534 words; ...composite _ was what the authors were trying to do: expose a social system that outsources parenting to an ever-changing phalanx of caregivers...live in the same city _ Kraus in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill, McLaughlin on the Upper West Side _ they mostly connect...

Democracy in Decline.(Losing Confidence: Power, Politics, and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy)(Book review)
Alternatives Journal; 12/15/2009; 1325 words; ...minority of the popular vote--there-is little in the Canadian system to stop a prime minister from pursuing an agenda that is contrary...implies, if Harper ever finds himself in this position. May cobbles together a list of Harper's misdeeds to make her case. The...

Research from A.D. Irving et al has provided new information about ecology.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 12/11/2009; 641 words; ...role of facilitator traits in cobble beach plant communities in New U.K., USA. In this system, intertidal beds of the cordgrass...buffering wave action, stabilizing cobbles, and limiting physical disturbance...strength of facilitation in this system," wrote A.D. Irving and...modification of ...

Delegates to cobble climate accord in one week.(Business Report)
The Star (South Africa); 12/9/2009; 679 words; ...spelled out the massive task at hand for negotiators: to "cobble together all ideas into a coherent set of proposals that everybody...President Barack Obama's proposed carbon cap-and-trade system did not make it through the Congress or Senate. De Boer said...

Team Garmin-Slipstream Officially Re-named Team Garmin-Transitions With Addition of Transitions Optical as New Sponsor.
Health & Medicine Week; 12/7/2009; 888 words; ...R] sun wear. From the mountains of the Grand Tours to the cobbles of the Classics, Team Garmin-Transitions athletes will wear...2007, Slipstream created the most progressive anti-doping system in the professional sports world and now works with Anti...