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...waiting for more money from the stimulus bill package to trickle down, though Johnson fears bureaucratic delays. That means many of the people who need help won't get it through this bill, says Brad Hunter, director of the South Florida market of MetroStudy, a housing market research firm. The confusing, work-in-progress package, for example, is supposed to help first-time homeowners but won't help those who have already lost their homes...
...world is buying in. Take the success of the whimsically named Super Potato, an interior-design firm founded by Takashi Sugimoto. His designs have been commissioned in more than 20 countries, most notably in the high-end Grand Hyatt and Shangri-La hotel chains. Sugimoto was tired of the proliferation of stale Japanese icons overseas, the lackluster sushi bars or suburban karate studios. He decided, instead, to export a whole new aesthetic that plays with the collision of natural materials, such as bamboo and stone, with industrial matter such as scrap metal or junkyard finds. The result is a celebration...
Soon it was time for questions. Nobody asked what McCain planned to do for the Georgians. No, most of the questions were about what he could do for Pennsylvanians - specifically, the Pennsylvanians asking the questions. The owner of a real estate firm wanted to know what McCain would do about real estate values. A farmer asked what McCain would do for farmers. A "young, hardworking American" asked what McCain would do to preserve Social Security for young, hardworking Americans. A veteran asked what McCain would do about veterans' benefits. Even the few questions that weren't strictly about the questioners...
...Hillary Clinton who planted the first doubts about Obama on the economy. The key theme: experience. "Hillary said she's the candidate for people who need a President," says Thomas Riehle, a partner at RT Strategies, a bipartisan polling firm in Washington. "In other words, people who don't need a President can afford to vote for Obama because he's exciting, represents change, etc." Which is why, Riehle says, Obama did so badly in some blue collar areas - places along the Ohio River, for example, where Clinton beat him by two- and three-to-one margins...
...protest the city's pollution. The riders were later forced to apologize. Even U.S. President George W. Bush, on his way to watch the Games as a self-professed sports fan, got into the act by expressing "deep concern" about China's human-rights record. "America stands in firm opposition to China's detention of political dissidents and human-rights advocates and religious activists," Bush said in a speech in Bangkok a day before leaving for China. "We speak out for a free press, freedom of assembly, and labor rights not to antagonize China's leaders, but because trusting...