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...doubt that very much. What drives people to fly airplanes doesn't have much to do with money: they'll do it at a low price, they'll do it at a high price. And despite the terrible loss of income and prestige that pilots have suffered over the last 30 years, they are still making a middle-class income. (Read "Surviving Crashes: How Airlines Prepare for the Worst...
...Indeed, up until the last week before the House vote on health reform, both Pelosi and Stupak thought they each had the votes to get their way on abortion. As a result, when Indiana Congressman Brad Ellsworth, a pro-life Democrat, tried to draft an amendment tightening the Capps language in the last weeks before the House vote, both sides attacked him. Planned Parenthood said the effort -- which attempted to strengthen the segregation of funds and ensure that no federal dollars could ever be designated to fund elective abortions in the exchange (which would include the public option) - could...
...weakened in, the final legislation. Senate moderates like Ben Nelson and Kent Conrad have stopped short of demanding the exact Stupak language, but have warned that weak abortion restrictions could force them to vote no on health reform. Abortion-rights advocates, who are still stunned by the last-minute deal that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made to allow a vote on Stupak's controversial measure, claim the provision will greatly limit the availability of abortions, especially for low-income women. They have dubbed it "the coat-hanger amendment." (See the top 10 key players in health care reform...
...Last month, Tony Musulin was a nobody, a single 39-year-old man who drove an armored bank security van in Lyon, France. Then on Nov. 5, when two co-workers briefly left him alone to run an errand, he allegedly vanished with more than $17.2 million in unmarked bills. It only took police a few days to recover most of the stolen loot - nearly $14 million - in a storage unit in Lyon, and then on Monday, Musulin turned himself in to authorities in Monaco (without the remaining $3.8 million). Many Frenchmen may have been a little disappointed...
...that it was looking into imports of U.S.-made cars from manufacturers that received government support. The trend has economists worried about a trade war. But U.S. officials dismiss that notion, arguing that the affected goods comprise a small part of the massive trade relationship that surpassed $400 billion last year. The global economic slump has no doubt exacerbated tensions, but the U.S. and China have matured in how they discuss their trade differences. "They're working through a lot of scattered issues, but they are working through the WTO," says James McGregor, the former chairman of the American Chamber...