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...president has been stunningly effective in reversing the decline of foreign opinion of the U.S. President Obama has drawn the American automobile industry back from the brink, protected equal pay for women, launched innovative education reforms, expanded health-care to four million children, begun the decommissioning of Guantanamo Bay and ending of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and put the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. Iraq is stable, and the troops will be on their way home, and additionally, Afghanistan has become the rightful focus...
...want to see polar bears up close, the place to go is Churchill, Man., on the western shore of Hudson Bay. When the ice breaks up in the summer, the bears come ashore by the hundreds to wait for the autumn refreeze. So it's where tourists and scientists go, to gawk at and study the huge white predators. Just south of Churchill, the Canadian government recently created Wapusk National Park (wapusk means "white bear" in the indigenous Cree language) to protect the area where pregnant females dig their dens. (See the top 10 invasive species...
...response to the layers of initiatives that have made California government increasingly dysfunctional, the Bay Area Council business group announced a plan last year to put an initiative on the ballot to hold a new constitutional convention. But two weeks ago, its Reform California campaign ran out of money. One reason: Kimball's firm and others, fearing such a convention might change the initiative business, warned their contractors against carrying the petitions. Very few of the signature gatherers at the shopping malls across California are volunteers; nearly all are contractors like Birch, working for firms hired by the state...
Enter cozy mittens. Sherman says the company has sold about 3.5 million pairs since their October 2009 debut; thanks to the Olympics, 1.5 million have cleared the shelves since Feb. 1. But get this: Hudson's Bay does not make a dime off the phenomenon. Net proceeds from mitten sales go right to the Canadian Olympic Committee to fund athletes' programs. To date, Sherman says the mittens have generated $12 million in net proceeds. Does he regret not negotiating a cut? "Not at all," he says. "We entered into this to do the right thing." What's more, Sherman notes...
...smattering of mittens is available in a few Bay and Zellers stores around Canada. But if you haven't gotten them yet, don't count on snaring a pair; they're about to be retired for the season. "We're now moving into the end of winter, and the new season is about to begin," Sherman says. "The challenge will be trying to repeat this next winter." His message to folks who want Hudson's Bay to keep restocking the shelves for just a few more weeks: "I'm sorry...