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...handheld from Research In Motion (RIM), the BlackBerry Storm. RIM hasn't officially launched the new device yet - and it declined to comment on the leak - but the Storm is clearly a direct assault on Apple's iPhone 3G and T-Mobile's G1. It's also an attempt to wow consumers with both a jazzy new design and an App Center filled with games and other add-on programs...
...very good move," but explained that "investors almost have to see things work now before they'll believe them." In particular, Low pointed out, investors may want to be sure that this year's bailout shows results - unlike last year's Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit, which was an attempt to solve the subprime crisis by three private banks (Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America) using private money - essentially what Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson hopes to do now with public funds. Within months, however, the Conduit was abandoned when no investors were willing to buy the toxic mortgages...
...melting Arctic ice, the Republican call to "drill, baby, drill" got louder and more popular, eventually pushing Democrats, including Barack Obama, to publicly support some amount of offshore drilling. The flip-flopping came on the heels of the Senate's defeat of the Warner-Lieberman bill - the first real attempt to pass federal cap-and-trade legislation - thanks in part to fears raised by Republicans that a carbon cap would further increase energy prices. "America's growing dependence on fossil fuels, once viewed as a Democratic trump card...has become a lodestone instead," wrote the green pollsters Michael Shellenberger...
...Obama's "lies" is his declaration that McCain is OK with the war in Iraq continuing for 100 years if need be. That pronouncement far exceeds any exaggerations from the McCain camp. The media's love affair with Obama is well documented. Nevertheless, TIME magazine should at least attempt objectivity. Hirbod Rashidi, LOS ANGELES...
...when graduation and proficiency rates are plummeting, fostering academic proficiency must be priority. While uniforms do not offer a holistic solution to the problems of academic achievement, they do present a simple positive step that inner city schools can afford to do, both financially and practically. Any such attempt to change policy, however, should be accompanied by active engagement with the involved community. No parent should be surprised by the new clothing catalogs for school uniforms arriving in his or her mailbox. Rather, school boards must solicit input from faculty, staff and students such that the broader community can feel...