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...blowing the race "dog whistle" it can hurt them, and bad. At least one uncommitted superdelegate in North Carolina said this week that pushing that button could push him away. "I do expect Sen. Obama to be the nominee," Brad Miller, the Congressman from North Carolina's 13th congressional district, told me Monday morning at his campaign office off an underground garage in downtown Raleigh. "And if 'electability' is code for being African American," he said, "I can't vote against him: I can't justify it to my African-American constituents or to myself...
...cities all over the world to go for a jog followed by a few beers. It calls itself "a drinking club with a running problem." But in Beijing two weeks ago, the Hash House Harriers ran into a more serious problem. After a five-mile jaunt through a bar district in eastern Beijing, seven runners were detained by police on suspicion that they were involved in a terrorist plot. "We did not imagine that, of all the things that could happen, we'd get arrested for running," says one participant...
...side, conservation groups say global warming threatens the bear by permanently damaging its Arctic habitat. On the other, conservative groups say the so-called plight of the polar bear is a gambit to intensify climate change hysteria. The battle flared up again last Monday, when a California federal district court judge ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Interior Department agency that evaluates endangered species, to decide on the polar bear by May 15 (a four-month extension of the original due date of Jan. 9). If FWS lists the bear as endangered, it would be the first mammal...
...America's fastest-growing cities in 2005. Its population shot up from 75,900 to 130,874 (including a boundary extension) in five years, as families and Bay Area investors flocked in, lured by low prices and no-money-down mortgages. Seven years ago, developers carved a new district, Franklin Reserve, out of hunting grounds and dairy farms, building 7,000 homes in three years to satisfy an insatiable demand for California living. But the slowing market threatened to dismantle the neighborhood before it got off the ground...
Instead of bringing in a conventional consultant to help him, Palestrant visited a loft in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. In a series of meetings there, Palestrant rattled off his ideas--an outpouring he likened to "intellectual bulimia"--while Elizabeth Pastor and Garry VanPatter, the team behind the firm Humantific, furiously drew and took notes. "He was really deep in the trees," Pastor says. The pair made sense of Palestrant's fuzzy ideas and turned them into huge, glossy posters with icons representing how the parts of his business fit together. Diagrams in hand, Palestrant went to venture-capital funds...