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Students named education the second most important issue, with healthcare, the war, and the environment coming in at third, fourth, and fifth. Generally, students said they care about all of the major issues under debate, as none of the ten subjects received a rating below 3.0 in importance...
...because evolving accounting standards - including those established in the Pension Protection Act of 2006 - prevent companies from getting too far underwater on their obligations to retirees. Public pensions have also been hit hard. State and local governments' pension funds support some 27 million Americans, and many have lost a fifth of their value this year. Virginia's retirement fund and California's Calpers have each fallen 20% in just the past four months. The pain is both broad and deep...
...part, the Cabinet seems poised to prod the gay movement into being sleeker, faster, more tactical. When the remaining veterans of Stonewall march down Fifth Avenue next summer, those shimmeringly romantic, slightly foolish days of 1969 will have never seemed so distant...
...outcome, as is so often the case in Florida, will be largely determined by the state's huge cohort of independent voters, who make up almost a fifth of the electorate. And that, say analysts, is again where early voting benefits the more potent Obama ground campaign. As more Democratic voters are checked off the list before Nov. 4, it allows his campaign to focus more of its energy and resources on the state's independents and undecideds. "You're simply able to throw that much more at the people who haven't voted yet," says Bishin...
...York City Marathon runners make their way through all five boroughs on Nov. 2. The course starts in Staten Island and finishes in Central Park; there are two good places in Manhattan to cheer the athletes - along First Avenue, between East 59th Street and the East 90s, and along Fifth Avenue south of East 110th Street, until the exhausted marathoners make their turn into the Park. If you're trying to get out of New York City, be aware of street and bridge closings, detailed on the marathon's website, where you can also find a course...