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...reasons behind the departures of Seidner, HMC's managing director for domestic fixed income, and Michael Llodra, a member of the fixed-income investment team, are unclear. But the news comes four months after HMC announced it would lay off roughly 50 workers, or a quarter of its staff, to "re-balance and re-engineer the organization...
More important, says Florida Congresswoman Kathy Castor of Tampa, HSR can enhance Florida's old economy, tourism, while helping lay a foundation for a new one. "So many visitors to Disney World would also like to hop on high-speed rail and enjoy our beaches," says Castor. "But the I-4 Corridor is also vital to our economic future, and high-speed rail is a high-tech project. I see it as a linchpin of Florida's reinvention...
...York City • drivers in are found to be America's angriest and most aggressive - "most likely to wave their fists or arms... most likely to lay on the horn... most likely to make some sort of obscene gesture" - in road rage survey...
Easily the most exciting piece of hardware aboard the ship, however - for lay lunarphiles at least - will be the camera. Even the best reconnaissance photography before the Apollo visits missed things, which is why Apollo 11's landing almost came to grief when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin found themselves piloting their lander over an unexpected boulder field just seconds before touchdown. That's less likely to happen this time, thanks to a camera that can visualize objects as small as a few feet across. What's more, since the LRO will be in a polar orbit instead...
...they're unwilling to take a passive role as other legislative items trump their concerns. "In the first several months of the Administration, there has been a belief that we are not really in the mix," says Steven Elmendorf, a gay Democratic lobbyist. "Obama himself needs to sort of lay out at some point, 'Yes, I want to do these things ... I am going to use some political capital...