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...recent decades, every Greek government has entered office vowing to clean house and crack down on the twin scourges of tax evasion and corruption. But during the years of plenty there was little external pressure for the country to mend its ways. Now, with Greece's public debt ballooning out of control and Greece accused of putting the integrity of the euro at risk, the stakes are higher. Greece must cut spending and raise more revenue or risk defaulting on its debt. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...batteries can be swapped for fresh ones on long trips. (They're called "switching stations.") This isn't pie-in-the-sky stuff, either - Better Place announced last week that it had raised $350 million to support the venture, one of the largest rounds of venture capital for a clean-tech company ever. (The company is also planning to build charging networks in Israel and Portugal, but its Danish project is a bit further along...
...You’ve said previously that you consider accusations of using performance-enhancing drugs as a compliment. You’ve also willingly submitted to enhanced drug testing. Did you think it was necessary to preemptively prove that you are clean...
...Clean Harbors, a hazardous waste disposal and response company, is currently cleaning the river. Laskey said he anticipates their work to take several days...
...knows how much of a pain it can be to convince the corporate colossus in Redmond that you’re actually not trying to pirate anything—you just want to reinstall your legal copy of Windows. By contrast, when I decided to wipe my hard drive clean and just “start over” with my Mac, the computer didn’t bother me every time it started up about “checking in” with Microsoft—it just worked...