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...Soul of the New Machine Back when Obama was still just a Chicago pol, few would have mistaken him for the leader who would help give birth to a new clean-energy economy. In the late 1990s, the future President described himself as a "strong supporter" of downstate coal interests, voting in the Illinois legislature for billions of dollars in loan guarantees for new dirty power plants, and for a bill that condemned the Kyoto Protocol...
...about 15,000 a year, vs. 15 million bicycles. But sales have grown steadily, even though in the U.S. they're sold almost exclusively online, with no advertising, by skeletally staffed e-tailers like Diggler and SidewalkerUSA. "I do need to push it more," says KickbikeAmerica's laid-back chief, David Nadolski, who recently quit his day job to focus on selling and promoting kickbikes. "Clients love them...
...After 2003, Iraqi politics got so complicated, with so many parties, and so many foreign countries got involved that it's like the whole political scene is built on straw," says Hazem Shammari, a professor of political science at Baghdad University. "If one thing goes wrong, we'll go back to [civil war]." (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
With so many foreign powers playing politics in Iraq, the future of the nation will depend on the skill, maturity and willingness of its leaders to compromise. Plenty don't think they are up to the task. "They are going to push us back to civil war," says Daha Arwai, the head of a charity that looks after the children and widows of men murdered by militias. Will Iraq's leaders prove her wrong? Joe Biden is convinced they will - but then, the Vice President is one of life's sunny optimists. Most others, watching Iraq, have their fingers very...
...week, coach has been harping on us that last year they came into our home stadium and bullied us around a little bit,” Cohen said. “So that’s definitely on the back of our minds...