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This city came to view the breadth of its industrial base as a shield from economic downturns. But no sector is immune to this recession, not even Atlanta's core tourism industry. Occupancy at Atlanta-area hotels is down 16.4%, and some are barely half-full, partly because corporate travel has declined...
Folks in Allendale don't have extra money to spend. So the town's already meager tax base is eroding. If any of Allendale's 38 employees leaves, there will be no replacement. Jackson's dreams of a new police station are dashed. Now, he fears many of the remaining residents will leave. The other day, he showed up in town with two employment applications to cut grass at a nearby nuclear power plant. "Loads of people came up to me grabbing applications," Jackson says. Still, he's hopeful some of the federal government's stimulus money will help Allendale...
...redesigns in the last five years suggests that most papers either continued to slide or did worse after changing their design. Thus, back in 2006, when Facebook was still an upstart company trying to compete with MySpace, Zuckerberg had to tread more lightly to cater to his fledgling user base. With Facebook now as healthy as ever, Zuckerberg is free to change what he wants, when he wants...
...courts last year and is now living in self-imposed exile. Sondhi's firebrand speeches full of demagoguery rallied crowds of supporters in prolonged, occasionally violent, protests last year against Thaksin, but he has been accused by critics of stoking hatred against rural people, who form Thaksin's support base, and of being antidemocratic for advocating appointed, as opposed to elected, representatives. (See pictures of the 2008 protests in Bangkok...
...decapitated since January 2008 as well as a grenade attack on a U.S. consulate. The Mexican security forces and the entourage of Secret Service agents were taking no chances to allow Obama to even step on the streets of Mexico City. After flying by helicopter into a key military base, he stuck within a square mile of the presidential palace and was out of the country on Friday after less than 20 hours. (See behind the scenes pictures from President Obama's European journey...