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...Monday, McDonald's confirmed earlier press reports that it will spend about $1.1 billion - more than half its total global investment funding in 2009 - to revamp scores of existing restaurants in Europe and open 240 new ones there. That effort will not only focus on relatively new markets in Eastern Europe like Russia and Poland, but also sink roots deeper in West European nations like Italy, Spain and France - generating about 12,000 badly needed new jobs in the process. As part of that expansion plan, McDonald's says it will add about 400 new McCaf...
...said he will draw on his globe-trotting experience with the WHO in his study group, which will focus on improving U.S. foreign policy using health diplomacy...
Rose B. Styron—a poet, journalist, and activist who will be a resident fellow—said she was both excited and nervous to be the first poet fellow. Her study group will focus on the interaction of the artist with the political sphere...
...yield. Others would grow more slowly and produce a small yield. In addition there would be less precipitation and it would be darker, also damaging yield. You compound that with [the shutdown of] the current global network of food trading - countries would likely stop shipping food and focus on feeding their own populations - and it's a big crisis. We don't have the resources to do detailed analyses on the impacts of crops in different farming regimes but this suggests it could be a very serious problem...
...Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad said Wednesday the Senate version should take the CBO report into account and focus more on job creation. "One thing I think we have to look at is a redirection of some of this money," he told reporters tersely after the caucus meeting, "to things that will have more of an immediate effect." The Senate Appropriations Committee postponed its markup of the Senate version until next week after negotiators said they wanted to revisit some provisions...