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...start carpooling or riding bicycles to work, and may, in the long term, even move to live closer to their jobs. "The goal is a different manner of paying for mobility that is more fair," Eurlings says. "Not paying more, but paying differently, with a positive income effect for most households." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...reality. Vehicle use has risen sharply over the years, but road capacity has yet to catch up - in part due to lack of space. Previous attempts to reduce traffic - from offering incentives to people who carpool to giving away free croissants and newspapers on public transport - have had little effect. The government estimates that a typical rush hour has about 270 kilometers of traffic jams, although the GPS maker TomTom often records up to 1,000 kilometers of back-ups during peak hours. (See a TIME video of a GPS tour of the Berlin Wall...
...original Senate bill called for lower thresholds - 75% and 80% respectively - while the House bill calls for an 85% limit across the board; crucially, both of those bills would have ended the requirement in 2013, the year much of health reform only begins to take effect, while Reid's new provision would maintain the regulation in perpetuity. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who had advocated killing the public option-less Senate bill, said Monday on MSNBC that of the last-minute changes to the Senate bill made by Reid, the strengthening of the MLR regulations was "the most...
...just the poor who suffer in unequal societies? KP: The impact of inequality, although greatest among the poor, does seem to effect people almost all the way up the income ladder. We are not sure about the super-rich. They make up less than 1% of the population, so it's difficult to track...
...agriculture, a process that historians say caused millions of deaths from starvation in the 1920s and '30s, when Stalin was general secretary of the Communist party. "It's true, there was no peasantry left after that," Putin said. "Everything that happened in this sphere did not have any positive effect on the villages. But after all we did get industrialization." (Read: "Putin: Yes, I May Run Again. Thanks for Asking...