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...California may be the best example to illustrate why the stimulus package will be "slow acting". It has among the highest unemployment rates. The infrastructure programs available for California would include broadband expansion, IT enhancement, and energy grid enlargement. The regulatory environment in California has always been strict. Almost all the federal government stimulus packages will require approval, likely from multiple bureaucracies in this state. This alone means that the economic crisis in the Golden State cannot be mitigated in any serious way until well into...
...which hormones are used to induce the production of eggs, which are externally fertilized and then implanted back into the uterus - became available in the U.S. Since then, the percentage of twins and triplets as a proportion of total births has increased several-fold. It's almost as if no one is impressed by them anymore. Two kids? Blah. Three kids? A teeny bit warmer. But quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, septuplets, octuplets? Now we're talking. Multiple births have become easier, yet the dangers are very real for both mothers and children alike. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...state of cultural isolation, such that they have no opportunity to see the beneficial side of our mixed-market economic system and continually view the United States as a dangerous aggressor and a cause of their poverty. Today, many experts agree that ending the costly and counterproductive embargo would almost certainly contribute to an end to the Castro regime. Its continuation does little but galvanize support for Cuba’s outdated and undemocratic governmental system...
...Washington that almost qualifies as business as usual, except for a small detail: on the campaign trail, Obama vowed to stop the revolving door that lets onetime lobbyists go to work for the Federal Government and oversee contracts that could harm - or help - their former employer. And one of the first things the new President did in office was seemingly make good on that promise, signing an Executive Order barring former lobbyists from joining his Administration to work at agencies they recently lobbied. (See pictures of Obama's Inauguration...
...been almost 10 months since Zimbabwe's opposition beat Robert Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwean African National-Popular Front (Zanu-PF) in a general election. Mugabe refused to accept the outcome, calling it a "mistake," and unleashed a wave of violence against MDC supporters. After winning a run-off against Tsvangirai - the MDC leader had withdrawn in the face of the violence - Mugabe unexpectedly announced his intention to share power. Ever since, the two sides have been deadlocked in negotiations over how that might be accomplished. In the meantime, Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis has sharply deteriorated. Inflation has spiraled...