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There was no lack of, well, buzz about Google's new Buzz social-media platform last week, but more important were a series of moves that suggest the search giant is ready to take a tentative step toward fixing one of its longest-held gripes: the speed of Internet connections...
...deep government-wage or job cuts that other heavily indebted European countries, like Ireland, Spain and Portugal, have recently announced. Instead, Athens will pursue tax evaders. "Greece's problems," Papandreou told journalists at a press conference marking his first 100 days in office, "are due to waste, corruption and lack of respect towards...
Perhaps if the good people of Massachusetts had to live in my state, they would not have been so eager to derail President's Obama's health care reform. I live in an area of California where 36.3% of the people lack health insurance and more than 17% are unemployed. Our emergency rooms are jammed with nonpaying customers. I am white, middle class and highly educated and can barely pay for insurance. The state and local safety nets are in tatters. Think about us next time you vote...
...then there's the lack of a standardized European plug and socket. Germany, with Renault's support, is pushing its seven-point version to be the standard, but other countries have their own ideas of what the connectors should look like. "Because Europe is fragmented and countries are putting forth their cars, it's going to be more difficult to come to a federal conclusion," says Calum MacRae, an automotive expert with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London. "Obviously, if you standardize [the connectors], you bring the cost down." And when it comes to selling the public on electric cars, price will...
...lack of skiers was not unexpected. Whistler, in fact, didn't even volunteer to host the Games - the resort doesn't really need the exposure. But once Vancouver won the Games, Whistler essentially had to rent itself out to the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) to provide the slopes for the men's and women's alpine skiing events, including the downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super G and the super combined. The contract calls for VANOC to reimburse Whistler for skier days lost to the Games. "VANOC's done a good job," says Jensen. "They're making us whole...