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...government is also hatching new plans to support small businesses, many of which are family-owned, have little access to capital markets and are getting squeezed by the credit crunch. Ronald Pofalla, the general secretary of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), says, "We think that now is the right time to consider creating a Germany Fund, especially to help midsize industry in this difficult period and ensure optimal availability of financing...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan will be nominated to serve as President-elect Barack Obama’s solicitor general, the administration’s representative to the Supreme Court, Obama announced in a press release Monday morning.If confirmed by the Senate, Kagan will represent the federal government, party to about two-thirds of cases brought before the high court, and play an integral role in guiding the administration’s interaction with the Supreme Court, working under Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Eric J. Holder.“I am honored and grateful, awestruck...
...confirmed by the Senate, she will serve as the solicitor general, a position widely regarded as a stepping stone to an appointment to the nation’s highest court...
...Third-hand smoke,” a term coined by the study’s authors, is defined as the smoke that remains after a cigarette is extinguished. The study, which was led by Jonathan P. Winickoff, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, sought to uncover the health beliefs of adults about the inhalation of third-hand smoke and how those beliefs vary across smokers and nonsmokers. Although the researchers found a positive correlation between opinions about the health impacts of third-hand smoke and prohibiting smoking in the home...
...help end this violence and human tragedy," says a French official, referring to Sarkozy's appeal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to exert influence on Hamas when the two men met in Damascus on Tuesday. "We think Syria could greatly contribute to peace in the region in general terms but could also help end the current crisis, in particular by making Hamas see reason...