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...ensuring that demand remains buoyant. Lula, too, has changed. These days he's a pragmatist who is as popular inside corporate boardrooms as he is in the favelas. On March 17, he will meet new U.S. President Barack Obama - a fellow moderate liberal who shares Lula's passion for green-energy ventures - in the White House. He will be the first Latin American leader to meet Obama since he took office, a sign, perhaps, that the new U.S. Administration sees Brazil as a key partner in forging a new policy for the Americas...
...Woman's Work Between taping episodes of her TV show at CNBC studios in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Orman reclined on the couch in the green room, her teeth glowing white. Her sunglasses were slipping down her nose, and she was made up with a powdery orange tan and zipped tight into a butterscotch leather motorcycle jacket. "A woman's nature is to nurture. A woman gives birth," Orman said. "Men have it right when it comes to earning money and asking for a raise," she continued. "But how many women do you see at the track...
...human suffering around her, Orman's demeanor remains perky and optimistic. She believes that people can sense that she wants what's in their best interests. As she waited to be called to the CNBC set, a woman in a uniform rolled a cart of food into the green room. "Hi, Suze," the woman said, bursting into a huge smile. She carefully laid out bowls of yogurt and muesli, and vegetables with dip. When the woman started arranging cans of soda on the table, Orman shooed her back. "Take that away," Orman said. "People don't need that crap...
...Philadelphia, the task-force members and panelists spent a long time congratulating one another on their good intentions before turning to the meeting's single topic: green jobs. The stimulus package bestows $500 million for green job-training programs, $6 billion in loan guarantees for green industries and $5 billion for a weatherization-assistance program that could save homeowners up to $350 per year on utilities. Van Jones, president of Green for All, made an impassioned plea to "give young people the chance to put down that handgun and pick up a caulking gun." Greg Nelson, official Middle Class Task...
...task force didn't specify the number of jobs it hoped to create in the green sector or how much of an impact the programs are expected to have on the middle class as a whole. Annie Tomasini, Biden's deputy press secretary, says the Philadelphia meeting was just a "listening session" and that the task force will not actually make any decisions regarding green job creation. They'll have to go back to Washington to do that...