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...compromise Senate bill emerged out of committee last month that would add two seats to the House of Representatives. One would go to the overwhelmingly Democratic Washington, D.C., while the other would be given to heavily Republican Utah, whose population count during the last census fell just short of netting the state an extra representative. A similar bill passed the House in April and supporters are optimistic that the Senate version has a similarly good shot of passage in the next few months. Standing in their way are President Bush and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, both...
...What developers didn't count on, though, was stingy consumers. Despite the country's rapid economic gains, the average citizen has little to spend on frills. Per capita annual income remains below $2,000. The average household saves more than 25% of its pay, in contrast to Americans, who in recent years have tended to spend more than they make. Just 4% of Chinese have credit cards, and purchases using plastic average less than $1,000 a year per cardholder. By Western standards, Chinese consumers simply have not yet begun to spend. As a result, "less than a handful...
...discussing who, if they had carte blanche, they would they want to add to their roster. While the MLS has a salary cap, they wanted to capitalize on a new rule (now commonly known as the "Beckham Rule"), which allows teams to designate one player whose salary doesn't count against the cap. Beckham topped their wish list because of his popularity in England, Europe and Asia, where his hairstyle and fashion sense can create instant pop-culture trends. Like Michael Jordan, Beckham transcends soccer, and the worldwide attention, as well as jersey and ticket sales, would make an immediate...
...However, she found these women too were focused more on goals like college degrees, entrepreneurship and home ownership than on matrimony. "They wanted to be married, yet they were preparing as if that was not going to be the case," she says. "There was a sense they couldn't count on men and marriage...
Neuk Crescent in Houston, on the edge of Glasgow, hardly feels like an outpost of terrorist activity. Residents of the quiet street, cut into a wooded hillside in the upper-middle class suburb, can count the Scottish city's rich professional football players among their neighbors. Curving in on itself, the crescent's name speaks to its snug insulation: In the local dialect, "neuk" means "nook...