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Staff will be working to rule, refusing to cover absent colleagues and refusing to undertake any work outside their job description.

The United States, the world's largest economy and second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is absent for the first time in the history of these meetings.

The surprising part, however, is not that phosphine was found -- but that it appears absent from other brown dwarfs and gas giant exoplanets where scientists expected it.

Each time Yale absents itself from public discourse, it makes a political decision.

Having been absent for 20 years, he fears—and rightly—that he will be unrecognizable to family, retainers, and countrymen.