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...Just before the campaign kicked off, Labor environment spokesman Peter Garrett tipped it as "the Google election." Garrett has since come to rue several comments he's made on the hustings, but he's been nearer the mark with that one. It's not a revolution in Australian campaigning - yet. But more than halfway through the runup to Nov. 24, the Web is harder than ever to ignore. Slicker websites are spruiking policy, online analysis is rife and political parties have YouTube video-sharing channels. Labor, under leader Kevin Rudd, is running sites like kevin07.com.au, where voters can blog views...
Given that hardship, retailers seize the opportunity. Now it's not only school that starts the day after Labor Day; so does Halloween. Target and Wal-Mart had their spooky gear out by the following weekend. Monthly magazines do Halloween in the September issue, so Christmas can hit in October. This year the weather even conspired to confuse and collapse the calendar--outdoor pools open in Washington in January, leaves defiantly green and aloft in the Northeast through October, when they're supposed to lie curled and dead and sweet-smelling beneath the feet of the little witches and ghouls...
...almost a million people and devastated crops of corn, bananas and beans. Villahermosa resident Jesus Hilario returned home to find his crops completely washed away. "I could be forced to go and work in El Norte," Hilario said, referring to the U.S., where 11 million of his countrymen labor. Getting Hilario to stay and rebuild will prove to be Calderón's greatest test...
Waterboarding has been a crime in the United States since 1901, when the government sentenced an Army major to 10 years of hard labor for water boarding a Philippino insurgent during the Spanish-American War. It was still a crime during the Vietnam War, when a U.S. soldier was severely punished after a photograph appeared in the Washington Post depicting the soldier waterboarding a North Vietnamese prisoner. There is no reason it should not be a crime...
...addition, with unskilled labor increasingly outsourced overseas, an educated workforce is an integral part of America’s competitiveness in the global economy. Subsidies for higher education will likely pay for themselves many times over in economic growth...