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...economy does get a stimilus lift, how will that play out in the stock market? I don't think the United States is going to grow faster than 3% at any time in the next five years. So we're not going to have the same kind of growth we had in the '90s, which was technology driven. And the decade we are currently in was really credit driven. As for this economy, I can't see where the big thrust is going to come from, so it's going to be a very slow growth recovery, and that means...
...Orders in recent history. In front of the country's leading scientific minds, including Dr. Francis Collins, who helped map the human genome, and Dr. Harold Varmus, former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a science adviser to the Administration, Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to lift the ban on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research put in place by then President George W. Bush in 2001. Obama's new Executive Order allows scientists to apply for government grants to study the versatile cells...
According to an e-mail sent by the "Concerned Alumni of New York," the group shares the Cambridge protesters' demands, which include that the university stop layoffs, reinstate all previously laid-off workers, and lift all hiring freezes currently in place at the University...
...relations. Lula told TIME he has "high expectations" that Obama will turn "a new page" on Latin America and "put aside traditional U.S. insistence on a narrow, one-sided approach that focuses almost exclusively on free trade and the drug war." Like most Latin leaders, Lula wants Obama to lift the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. And he is keen (he may be disappointed) to see the U.S. throw its weight behind a last effort to save the Doha round of world trade talks, which could offer farm-export nations such as Brazil new opportunities...
...announcement by defense secretary Robert Gates on Feb. 26 that the Pentagon would lift a ban on taking pictures of service members' coffins coming home--as long as their families consent to it--was the latest volley in a debate on photographs of war dead that dates back to the Civil...