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...values. Some conservatives-including the authors of a recent cover story in the Weekly Standard magazine-believe it's time for Republicans to embrace a mandatory universal health-insurance plan. Representatives of American industry-which is staggering under its health-care burden-have been meeting quietly with labor unions, think tanks and interest groups in Washington to try to find common ground. In 1993, Senator John Chafee proposed a Republican model of universal coverage that subsidized the working poor and taxed the rich to pay for it; he had the support of 20 Senate G.O.P. colleagues, more than enough...
...from European capital to European capital, including three trips to Paris, to explain his motives and promise he wouldn't cut European jobs. Governments have limited formal means to stop the Arcelor deal, as 85% of the company is traded freely on the stock market. Nonetheless, they and labor unions can make life hard for Mittal, who still needs to get E.U. antitrust clearance for the deal. The French government has used its political muscle to block takeovers in the past, including an attempt in 2004 by Germany's Siemens to acquire some operations of its ailing French rival Alstom...
...science in elementary and high schools has plummeted, leading to a drop in the number of students majoring in technical fields in college and graduate school. In the past, hungry immigrants looking for America's prestigious Ph.D.s made up for that decline in the U.S. science and engineering labor force. Now if they come to America for Ph.D.s, students often return with them to gleaming labs in their homelands...
...median rather than below. The stunning finding in my mind is not the canard that soldiers are poor, which Simon rightly skewers, but that the military is attracting wealthier enlistees after 9/11 than before. TIMOTHY J. KANE Washington, D.C. January 20, 2006 The writer is the Bradley Fellow in Labor Policy at the Heritage Foundation...
...Hudspeth County is not a major crossing point for illegal immigrants; the terrain is too unforgiving and there are more direct ways to get to labor markets in Dallas, Phoenix and Chicago. But marijuana smugglers bring in their crop grown in the nearby Chihuahua desert. West said his men confiscated 300,000 pounds last year and "that was just what we caught." "It used to be cat-and-mouse," West said, and the only weapon most smugglers had "were two fast feet." Now, they are armed with high-powered weapons and, West believes, are getting protection from Mexican Army units...