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...cuts. Mehlman sets goals for volunteer recruiting by state, county and precinct, and uses stats to pick his team: "The performance-based approach says that whoever produces the best results is the person you put in charge." One problem: figures don't always reflect rapid change or account for the element of surprise. But Mehlman is a believer. He's already crunching numbers for the next big game: the 2006 midterm elections...
...approved the launch of a new generation of reactor, with the first one scheduled to be built-by Areva-in the Normandy town of Flamanville starting in 2007. Just how big could nukes become? Jean-Jacques Gautrot, who heads Areva's international division, does a quick calculation. Taking into account the world's growing energy needs, and the fact that many of the world's existing plants will be coming to the end of their lives, he reckons at least 800 new reactors will be built over the next 25-35 years. Areva is convinced it is in the right...
...energy capacity, enough to power some 2,000 homes a year. Salomon's goal is to raise that figure to 10% by 2010. Freiburg's green credentials have made the city the largest solar research center in Germany, and environmental services - like installing solar panels and purifying waste water - account for 3% of all jobs in the region. "We've got four times as many jobs in the solar-power sector than anywhere else in Germany," beams Salomon, who's a member of the Greens. Architect Rolf Disch is one of the businessmen who has benefited from that environmental focus...
...about the source of their food, the environment and the use of pesticides and herbicides. Wholesome Sweeteners' sales of these sugars, which the company imports from five countries, have quadrupled in four years, reaching $26 million this year. Despite their growing market share, organic- and unrefined-sugar sales still account for a tiny share--about $39 million of the $10 billion-a-year U.S. sugar market. And only one company, Florida Crystals, produces organic sugar...
Corporate promises are often not worth the paper they're printed on. Businesses in one industry after another are revoking long-standing commitments to their workers. It's the equivalent of your bank telling you that it needs the money you put into your savings account more than you do--and then keeping it. Result: a wholesale downsizing of the American Dream. It began in the 1980s with the elimination of middle-class, entry-level jobs in lower-paying industries--apparel, textiles and shoes, among others. More recently it spread to jobs that pay solid middle-class wages, starting with...