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...solicitations, receives only a handful of seasonal letters from a few old friends. "People just don't write letters anymore," says his daughter Heather Bellanca. And by people, she means anyone more than 20 years younger than Murray, who lives by himself in Middlebury, Vt. So in an effort to keep him connected, Bellanca, who lives a couple of hours away in Salem, N.Y., this spring started spending $9.95 a month for a service that sends him letters every week - letters family and friends e-mail to a company that prints the correspondence and delivers it, via U.S. Postal Service...
Urban America is hard-pressed as well, says Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson. "For the last three years, we've scraped and scrounged just to pool together different pots of money to get children hired during the summer," says Jackson, speaking of a joint city-county effort to create summer jobs. "We've been able to do anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 jobs a summer. But these stimulus dollars give us about 4,500 additional jobs to play with." (Read "A Biden Show-and-Tell: How the Stimulus Has Created Jobs...
...study, which has been published annually since 2000, doubles as a progress report on governments' efforts to enforce laws against trafficking and ranks countries based on their commitment to tackling the issue. The report divides participating countries into three tiers according to an assessment of the extent to which their governments prosecute, prevent and protect victims from trafficking. (Tier 1 countries show the most effort in combatting trafficking, while Tier 3 countries show the least.) Tier 3 countries that do not comply with the minimum standards face sanctions. Unsurprisingly, developed nations in the 2009 report dominated the top tier, while...
...power to take over and wind down non-banks, most over-the-counter derivatives would be forced onto exchanges, and capital requirements would be ratcheted up across the financial system. But the current alphabet soup of regulatory agencies would remain mostly in place, and there will apparently be no effort to break up too-big-to-fail financial institutions or cordon off risky financial activities from essential ones (as the Glass-Steagall Act attempted...
...another pollster, Daniel Lund of Mund Americas, says the campaign may be the beginning of major change in Mexican politics. While there may only be a small percentage of people who actually make the effort to go and annul their ballots, he predicts that the overall abstention rate will be a shocking 70%. "Politicians will not be able to ignore a level of turnout that low," he says. Lund says the voto en blanco supporters could then go on to form a new political opposition along with disaffected members of the main parties. "This movement is a response...