Word: americas
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Harvard physics professor Gerald Holton and researcher Gerhard Sonnert discussed in a study group yesterday the assimilation of German refugee children and the factors that contributed to their socioeconomic success in America...
...think [it’s] the one thing that’s absent from the health care debate. You hear about greater distribution to more people, cutting costs, etc...But I don’t know how you can reform the new healthcare system in America and not talk about innovation, driving new technologies,” Crowley says...
...first called him.) He is also frustrated, restless and desperate to get back into the arena but unsure how to do it or if it's even possible, given the immense baggage he would bring to any new endeavor. He was one of the most driven politicians in America, a rocket powered by ambition and hubris. Now he's like one of those windup cars stuck on the edge of the carpet, its motor grinding away, threatening to flip over...
...question of his trying to return to office: "You have to understand what my family would go through," he says. "It would be unbearable. I just couldn't do that to them. It would be day after day of the ugly stuff." (See 10 elections that changed America...
...Democrats will pay a price this fall for passing such a sweeping and controversial bill this way - and they may be right. "A raw exercise of legislative power," Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell called the emerging game plan. He vowed, "It will be the issue in every race in America this fall." Yet this use of the reconciliation procedure - ironically misnamed, given the antagonism it has stirred - would not be as radical a maneuver as Republicans claim. Created in 1974, reconciliation has been used 21 times, mostly by Republicans, who employed it to, among other things, pass two sets...