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Probably not. One reason is changing demographics. Minorities and upscale professionals--the Obama coalition--constitute a much larger share of the population than they did several decades ago. In 1972 blacks, Hispanics and Asians composed 10% of the American electorate; by 2006 they were 21%. When McGovern won these groups, it barely made a dent. But if Obama does--and with Hispanics trending hard toward the Democrats, he probably will--he'll get a much bigger boost. The other half of Obama's coalition--college-educated whites--has also been growing fast. As John Judis and Ruy Teixeira noted...
...archaeological digs, removing the artifacts from surroundings that hold clues about the culture that made them. To most people, a Mesopotamian cult figure or a Maya stela, before it's anything else, is a work of art. To an archaeologist, it's first a crucial piece of a much larger puzzle, the puzzle that is history itself. And theft breaks the puzzle into pieces that can never be put back together. "Archaeologists are concerned about all the other information that goes along with [found objects]," says Alex Barker, who directs the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University...
Growth in home health care may not offset issues in the far larger professional segment, though. U.S. regulations have slashed Medicare payments for imaging services performed outside hospitals. That has pared lucrative sales of new imaging machines in the U.S.--Philips' largest health-care market--as much as 10% last year, according to research by JPMorgan. Still, "Philips probably has the most defensive exposure to the nonhospital imaging market" compared with rivals Siemens and GE, according to Citigroup...
Simmons expressed frustration that problems of homophobia distract attention from larger social issues facing black Americans...
...influence of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and former Vice President Al Gore ’69 for inspiring him to shift his focus “for at least the next 10 years.” Lessig said that his run for Congress would be part of a larger movement, dubbed “Change Congress,” which he launched in a 10-minute video hosted on his Web site, Lessig08.org. The goal of this movement, he said, is to get politicians to agree to refuse money from lobbyists, ban “earmarks?...