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...postwar generation was the first to refuse to grow up, but Gen-X and the rest have followed in their footsteps. And the selfish, heedless, if-it-feels-god-do-it approach enshrined by young boomers subsequently enabled the risk-taking, party-hearty paradigm that has governed so much of American life, economically and otherwise, for the last quarter century. Now in the twilight of their hegemony, with this crisis and the necessary reshaping of America, the boomers have their last best shot at helping to straighten out the mess they helped make. In their empty-nested years, for instance...
...want to provide for your family. I think everything going on right now with the Obama Administration and the policies they're enacting are going to cause young people to turn to an alternative, and I think that alternative is going to be conservatism. (Read "Obama's Legislative Approach: Pragmatism...
...Another smart move for Nissan is what Richter calls the "batteries not included" approach. The lithium-ion batteries that power the Leaf are expensive - about $10,000 per car - so Nissan is leasing battery packs to buyers rather than selling them with the EV, reducing the sticker price...
...Nevertheless, some observers see Kirill as a less politicized figure than his predecessor. Alexy II, an infrequent visitor to Kiev, openly supported the Moscow-backed candidate Viktor Yanukovych in his 2004 presidential race against Yushchenko. "Kirill is developing a new approach to Russian-Ukrainian spiritual unity," says Andrei Zolotov, an expert on the Russian Orthodox Church who followed the patriarch on his visit. "He's saying that he's the patriarch not just of Russia but of Rus. He's trying to position himself as a supranational leader beyond state boundaries...
...Forch, near Zurich. But so far, no one who has accompanied a person to Dignitas has faced prosecution after returning to the U.K. The vagueness of the law pushed Debbie Purdy, a British woman suffering from multiple sclerosis who plans to end her life at the clinic, to approach the court about forcing prosecutors to state whether her husband Omar would face jail time if he accompanied her to Switzerland. (Read "Going Too Far with Assisted Suicide...