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...definitely do so. In the Midwest alone, some 275,000 jobs would be lost as a result of a GM bankruptcy. "If they go into bankruptcy, it's going to have a catastrophic effect on businesses across the board," says John W. Henke Jr., president of PPI, based in Birmingham, Mich. (See the Top 10 Bailout Measures...
...college student. For one thing, the 6'2" safety at Florida State has NFL scouts drooling; for another, he's already earned his pre-med degree in two-and-a-half years. But his itinerary last weekend was particularly extraordinary. On Nov. 22, the Seminoles' safety jetted off to Birmingham, Ala., where he sat for a final interview for the Rhodes Scholarship, generally viewed as the country's most prestigious. After learning he was one of the 32 student-athletes in the country to earn the honor - and with it, two years of study at England's vaunted Oxford University...
...Scholarship is. They don't have any idea where you study, or what you study. It's not a bad thing; they've never been exposed to it. But the fact that they were really behind me and supported me meant a lot. On Thursday, before I traveled to Birmingham for my Rhodes interview, they got me in the huddle and they all put their hands on me and prayed for me, prayed for my safety and that I would let me personality shine through in the interview. During the day while getting ready for the interview, I was getting...
...pictures of Election '08 in Birmingham and Selma...
...Brussels, at the European Trade Union Institute, economist Andrew Watt draws some uncomfortable historical parallels. "There was some idea that the financial sector was immune," he says. "It's like pinning your hopes on anything, whether it's textiles in the north of England or the car industry around Birmingham. It expands for a while, and then it takes a nasty knock...