divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/34339?ns=guardianpageName=Comment+is+free%3A+Sipson+can+define+an+erach=Comment+is+freec3=The+Guardianc4=Travel+and+transport+environmental+impact%2CCarbon+emissions+%28Environment%29%2CClimate+change+%28Environment%29%2CActivists+%28Environment%29%2CEnvironment%2CHeathrow+%28Travel%29%2CPolitics%2CTransport+UKc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CClimate+Change%2CEthical+Living%2CUK+Travelc6=John+Harrisc7=2008_12_05c8=1129133c9=articlec10=GUc11=Comment+is+freec12=blogc13=c14=Comment+is+freeh2=GU%2FComment+is+free%2Fblog%2FComment+is+free" width="1" height="1" //divpOn the face of it, it's a struggle between the usual powerful suspects and an alliance that takes in everyone from Tories to anarchists. To many people, though, it is something even more important: a turning-point that will either prove that government doesn't always have to bow to a corporate version of the inevitable, or sorely test thousands of people's limited faith in politics. Bizarrely, the frontline is the nondescript Middlesex village of Sipson, a clump of postwar suburban housing that was famously visited last year by the Camp For Climate Action. A ruling in favour of a third runway at Heathrow airport will mean that Sipson will be concreted over. If - by some 11th-hour miracle - it survives, it will be transformed from a very noisy corner of west London into a byword for against-the-odds optimism./ppThe final decision was yesterday postponed until the new year. Though the Tories' recent manoeuvrings have suggested a bonfire of David Cameron's early progressive poses, his party is opposed. Since 2003, by contrast, the government line has been fervent support for the plan, with limp caveats on noise and pollution - though, according to a steady trickle of stories, a loose group of cabinet ministers have been expressing a mixture of unease and outright opposition, from the energised new climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, through his brother David, on to Harriet Harman, Hilary Benn and John Denham. Ranged against them, unfortunately, is a truly titanic alliance: among other ministers, the PM and the transport secretary Geoff Hoon, along with BAA, the airlines, the CBI, at least two of the big unions, and the relevant parts of the civil service./ppLower down the Labour food chain, plenty of MPs are terrified of the damage a pro-expansion decision will do to the party's atrophying vote in the home counties. Others cleave to that residual old Labour position whereby the promise of jobs - British jobs, to use the vernacular - trumps just about everything. /ppSome people claim that, despite predictions of serial loopholes, the inclusion of aviation in EU emissions trading from 2012 might somehow lessen a third runway's environmental impact. Maybe, they argue, the air industry can be treated with kid gloves as long as there is huge movement on low-carbon electricity generation and car technology. But much clearer arguments surely point in the opposite direction. What with the Climate Change Committee chaired by Adair Turner urging as much as a 42% cut in Britain's greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and the younger Miliband pledged to an 80% drop by 2050, how is the case for expansion credible?/ppA third runway will increase the number of Heathrow flights by almost a half. Every year, its CO2 emissions will equal those of Kenya. It would be completed just as the effects of climate change start to blitz the developing world, which will couch the story in a horrible poetry: Europeans blithely securing even easier global travel, while millions cope with food shortages, water scarcity, and a rather more nightmarish kind of population movement./ppThough only a fool would be optimistic, some rumblings from Westminster and Whitehall suggest that the delayed decision might denote at least a tiny shred of hope, and a belated realisation of how massively symbolic this story is. As with a proposed revival of coal-fired electricity, the third runway represents something truly era-defining: it may not have the iconic ring of your Caracases or Porto Alegres, but if we're going to have an even halfway progressive future, Sipson would be a great place to start./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/travelandtransport"Travel and transport/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/carbonemissions"Carbon emissions/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climatechange"Climate change/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/activists"Activists/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/heathrow"Heathrow/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/transport"Transport/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/8P6OxM44nMNMRmh5ovS7TdtCYng/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/8P6OxM44nMNMRmh5ovS7TdtCYng/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Prepare yourself - this much testosterone may be bad for your health.

Otherwise, enjoy!

At first, Zeck was just mixed in with other cover artists. Right from the get go, though, his covers were extremely dynamic with interesting angles and layouts.

Then. however, Zeck began his most famous stretch of covers, drawing the covers for issues #37-57, with only one John Byrne cover (for #50) mixed in.

As you can see, almost all his covers are striking in either one of two ways - either they are dynamic action shots or they are dramatic looking cool poses.

There are a few slight duds mixed in there, of course (the cover for #50 stands out, I believe, in a negative sense - it does not seem all that dramatic for a 50th issue), but for the most part, he was on top of things every month.

During this time, he even helped launch a new G.I. Joe title - G.I. Joe Special Missions, where his action covers were definitely warranted…

Some of the later Special Missions covers seem a bit on the rough side, but still, very cool covers.

Zeck also did the cover for one of the G.I. Joe Yearbooks…

Zeck actually stayed on the covers of the main book for nine issues past #57, but man, the change in the book’s direction did not suit Zeck’s style at ALL.

An armored Cobra Commander? A guy in a Hawkman get-up? Some pirate guy on a hovercraft? Zeck did what he could, but this was no longer his wheelhouse…

The exception, of course, is this three-parter where Zeck got to draw what he drew best - dynamic military action scenes…

#61, in particular, is one of the best covers he did on the book.

But then it was back to the sillier plots…

When Zeck is drawing stuff in outer space - you know you’ve gone too far.

He got one last cool cover and he was done with the book, after forty-four awesome covers!

As always, thanks to the Grand Comic Book Database for the covers!

And thanks, of course, to the great Mike Zeck for these covers!

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• At December 4, 2008, T. wrote:

  Bob McLeod is definitely Zeck's best inker.

  Did Kerry Gammill ink issue #56's cover?

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/75372?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Millions+of+Chinese+graduates+out+of+work+after+fivefold+rise+in+university+placesch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=China+%28News%29%2CInternational+education+news%2CEducation%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CEducation+Weekly+Education%2CStudents+Educationc6=Tania+Braniganc7=2008_12_04c8=1128381c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Chinac13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FChina" width="1" height="1" //divpSu Yinyin's family were thrilled when she won a place at university. As impoverished farmers, they knew it promised a comfortable middle-class life and a giant step up the social ladder for their daughter./ppBut now Su, 21, is wondering whether she can reach the next rung. As she looked around the heaving employment fair in Beijing, where 10,000 job-seekers vied for the attention of recruiters, she acknowledged that her parents' pride was increasingly tinged with anxiety. "When I became a student, it was both happy and worrying for my family," she said. "We are not rich. I took loans for university. I just hope I can get a stable job after graduation and repay them."/ppMore than 6 million Chinese students left university this year and up to a quarter are still struggling to find work. As the global slowdown bites, students such as Su know it can only get worse./pp"The grim economic situation poses an unprecedented challenge for college graduates to get a proper job," the ministry of education warned yesterday./ppBut the problems predate the crisis and mark both a success and failure on China's part. "The number of graduates increased too quickly - by 2006 there were already five times more than in 1999. The labour market can't take that big an increase in such a short time," said Professor Yang Dongping of the Beijing Institute of Technology, the author of a report on graduate employment./ppThe expansion of higher education reflects China's aspirations: the world's factory needs more skilled workers to move up the chain, away from cheap mass production. Yet there are not yet enough higher-end jobs. Four million graduates in recent years have yet to find their first job, according to officials. However, the true figure is probably higher as the current system relies on reporting by universities, who have a vested interest in showing that graduates can find work./ppGraduates are now competing with people made redundant. "I've had interviews, but they want people with experience," said Liu Jing, who has been job-hunting for six months. "There are more graduates, so there are more competitors for every post."/ppLike Su, she hails from a farming family; she had hoped to earn 2,000-3,000 yuan (pound;200-pound;300) a month to pay off her 20,000 yuan education bill. Now the 21-year-old will settle for 1,000 yuan./ppHigher expectations are clashing with the deteriorating economic reality./ppUntil 1981, the government assigned jobs, with those who dreamed of becoming engineers sometimes ending up as cooks or clerks. But while their parents took the work they were given, these students grew up in an age of personal choice. They expect fulfilling jobs and good remuneration; few want to leave the big cities or take up underpaid teaching work./ppGuo Qing, 22, should not have been at the fair at all: he found a design job after graduating this summer. But he admitted he packed it in not long afterwards. "I was very picky when looking for jobs before. I felt this or that didn't fit me. Later I realised it was my problem, psychologically," he said. "Our education was idealistic. But you realise the gulf between realism and idealism once you reach the real world. When you're job hunting you have to be practical."/ppYang thinks China needs to change, too. "Only 6% of the labour force has higher education, much lower than in most developed countries. There have to be structural problems," he said./ppSpending per student has slumped by almost two-thirds and most investment has gone into new buildings. Yang said that meant a drop in teaching quality and an explosion in liberal arts courses, while resource-hungry subjects such as engineering have lagged behind./ppThe government is reining back expansion and promising more help with job-hunting. But many of this year's graduates are hoping for more direct support. On Sunday, a record 775,000 applicants sat civil service exams - 130,000 more than last year - for only 13,500 jobs./pp"I didn't think of beating so many candidates," one graduate told the state media. "But I have to - because I've submitted my reacute;sumeacute; to about 60 firms and got only 10 replies, and no offers." /pp· Additional research by Chen Shi/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/china"China/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/internationaleducationnews"International education news/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/8T8vZCh3c7tqIl2s6KGZHfJL3n0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/8T8vZCh3c7tqIl2s6KGZHfJL3n0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Publication Date: 2008 Nov 18 PMID: 19041878br/Authors: Davis, I. W. - Baker, D.br/Journal: J Mol Biolbr/br/Computational docking of small-molecule ligands into protein receptors is an important tool for modern drug discovery. Although conformational adjustments are frequently observed between the free and ligand-bound states, the conformational flexibility of the protein is typically ignored in protein-small molecule docking programs. We previously described the program RosettaLigand, which leverages the Rosetta energy function and side-chain repacking algorithm to account for flexibility of all side chains in the binding site. Here we present extensions to RosettaLigand that incorporate full ligand flexibility as well as receptor backbone flexibility. Including receptor backbone flexibility is found to produce more correct docked complexes and to lower the average RMSD of the best-scoring docked poses relative to the rigid-backbone results. On a challenging set of retrospective and prospective cross-docking tests, we find that the top-scoring ligand pose is correctly positioned within 2 A RMSD for 64% (54/85) of cases overall.br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D19041878title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a