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...Democrat Rick Boucher, who represented coal country Democrats in talks with Waxman, concurred. It would be the first global warming bill to get that far in the House, which is expected to easily pass the measure that is a key part of President Obama's agenda. Legislation faces a bigger challenge in the Senate, where influential Democrats oppose...
...point of the telescopes, which cost a combined $2.5 billion, might seem abstract to a public that associates space missions with moon walks and Star Trek. But that misses the bigger picture, according to Colin Pillinger, who led the 2003 Beagle 2 project to land a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. "People always say these big questions don't have anything to do with their day-to-day life," he says. "But we get all sorts of spin-offs from asking about the universe. The technologies generated include carbon fibers, new electronic systems and sophisticated radio technologies. And perhaps...
...year, expect "a wholesale change in the way AIM looks," says Cowie. U.K.-based firms have quit the market at more than twice the rate of overseas businesses in the last 18 months, he says, and the dwindling presence of smaller companies means the firms that remain will be bigger, forcing up the exchange's average market cap. Investors already look set to buy in. The AIM index is still down year-on-year but it's up 30% so far this year, far more than its bigger brother...
...seriously feel bad for everybody on CurrierWire that doesn't use gmail. Good luck to you all figuring out how this whole thread is going.” (If you don't use gmail, there are clearly bigger problems with your life...
...does not investigate the reasons for that disparity, Strully believes it may have something to do with the smaller financial buffer that blue-collar employees tend to have to cushion them from a sudden loss of income - the stress and anxiety of losing a job may therefore have a bigger impact on them. (Read about how our emotions can get us out of the recession...