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...conditions set by financiers will probably be tough. Commercial banks have refused to bail Mexico out until it has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. And the IMF will not help until the country has slashed its domestic budget and reduced an inflation rate that may exceed 90% this year. The more Mexico tries to placate its creditors, however, the more it unsettles its people. Earlier this month the price of tortillas quadrupled overnight. Next month the cost of a Mexico City subway ride is likely to increase from one peso to 50. Such developments are not easy...
...Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees, which raise money to support Democratic candidates and are both more than $40 million short of their 2006 totals. Each donor can give up to $28,000 to the DNC and $28,500 to each committee as long as they don't exceed more than $65,500 in a cycle giving to such committees...
Ultimately, though, the Marines of 1st Recon--despite changing, often contradictory orders--exceed society's expectations of them. The standout of Kill's ensemble is Alexander Skarsgard, as Sergeant Brad (Iceman) Colbert. He's fatherly to his men yet skeptical of his superiors; he's decent yet cynical; he's methodical in battle, yet he takes each civilian casualty to heart...
...Center and another that will be the world's largest. And on Wednesday Crist signed a bill (albeit weakened by the G.O.P.-led state legislature) to finally phase in auto and carbon emissions limits in Florida - including the first "cap and trade" arrangement in the Southeast, whereby companies that exceed their air pollution caps can buy emissions credits from firms that keep pollutants below their caps...
...there was any firewall against the fattening of American adults, it was American kids. The quick metabolism and prodigious growth spurts of childhood make it a challenge just to keep up with all the calories you need, never mind exceed them. But even the most active kids could not hold out forever against the storm of food coming at them every day. In 1971 only 4% of 6-to-11-year-old kids were obese; by 2004, the figure had leaped to 18.8%. In the same period, the number rose from 6.1% to 17.4% in the 12-to-19-year...