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...fighting and hourly-wage work now, and the corporations who grow our food. But Palin's embrace of small-town values is where her hold on the national imagination begins. She embodies the most basic American myth - Jefferson's yeoman farmer, the fantasia of rural righteousness - updated in a crucial way: now Mom works too. Palin's story stands with one foot squarely in the nostalgia for small-town America and the other in the new middle-class reality. She brings home the bacon, raises the kids - with a significant assist from Mr. Mom - hunts moose and looks great...
...interest rates offered for industrial companies with shabby credit ratings have soared over the summer, making the federal option even more crucial. All three of Detroit's carmakers have had their credit ratings downgraded; GM has had to fight off rumors of an impending bankruptcy; and Cerberus, Chrysler's principal owner, has been hammered by a new round of cutbacks. Ellen Hughes Cromwick, Ford's chief economist, said this week that the unfolding credit crunch has a had a palpable impact on the carmakers. "The credit crunch could persist for some time," she said. "That's a situation that adds...
...grants it has applied for, according to Broad. Reflecting this success, Broad researchers announced just this week that they had received a six-year $86 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support research to identify and develop molecular tools to signal pathways and cellular processes crucial to human health and disease. In light of its early and unchallenged success, the Broad Institute will now transition to a permanent non-profit organization, with both Harvard and MIT continuing to help govern it. Lander said that the nature of a permanent endowment will allow for tackling long-term problems...
...usually make up their minds late in the race. The ones who matter most, however, are not necessarily the same in each presidential election. In 1996 they were the "soccer moms" who responded to Bill Clinton's small-bore initiatives and rescued his presidency. The white female vote was crucial to George W. Bush's victory in 2004, a year that was marked by the post-9/11 political emergence of the so-called security mom - a term, interestingly enough, coined by Joe Biden, the man who is now Obama's running mate. But where 55% of white women voted...
...organizers, though, such events are crucial to free running's survival. There are plenty of brands - from Adidas to Hewlett-Packard - keen to feature free running in their advertising at the moment, but that interest is "going to die out at some point," reckons Paul Corkery, a 34-year-old Londoner in charge of Urban Freeflow, the team of free running teachers and performers behind the London event. Prolonging the sport's life requires taking the initiative...