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...Frankly, it's amazing the anti-business push lasted as long as it did. Huge amounts of money are at stake, and nothing focuses lobbying efforts like the bottom line. California's agriculture industry alone is a $31 billion-a-year behemoth, a point made with more than a little intensity yesterday by California Senator Diane Feinstein as she put through an amendment opening the door for 1.5 million new agricultural workers to enter the country. Reiff of the Essential Workers Immigration Coalition claims 5% of the U.S. workforce are illegal immigrants and that industry needs...
...been "Wimbledonized" for years (London has a great tennis tournament, but no Briton ever wins it) and where, says Robert Wade of the London School of Economics, there is "an unusually deeply held belief in the merits of free trade and free investment," there are limits. When Russian gas behemoth Gazprom started stalking the British supplier Centrica, officials let it be known that "any new ownership would face robust scrutiny." Put all those straws in the wind and you've got a flying haystack. "We're at a point here," says Kenneth Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia, "where...
...thousands of people, not just a handful of engineers and a six-pack of Code Red. One open-source program, the truly excellent Web browser Firefox, has been downloaded 150 million times. SourceForge.net a website that coordinates open-source work, is currently host to almost 15,000 projects. Internet behemoth AOL, which shares a corporate parent with this magazine, open-sourced its instant-messaging service just last week...
...into the energy sector is made difficult by the legacy of the past. European nations once had integrated energy suppliers with a local monopoly. Even if those firms are now limited in the amount of a market they can control, huge national power companies - think E.ON, France's electricity behemoth EDF and Enel - continue to have a hand in the generation, supply and distribution of energy. It's tough for potential new entrants to break into those businesses. "The main way in which these markets become 'contestable' is thus via takeovers of less efficient players," says Daniel Gros, director...
...about life on the East Coast, as she did in her critically acclaimed novels Strange Heaven and Saints of Big Harbour. In Mean Boy, the geek hero's adventures with his mentor and experiments with alcohol, women and new forms of poetic expression (plus his unlikely friendship with a behemoth football player) all provide fodder for comedy. And somewhere in the haze of hangovers, the novel also manages to examine the nature of poetry, poets and the underappreciated fine art of growing...