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Some Hawaiians have a ready explanation for Obama's reticence about the state where he was born. They say local people were raised to be humble, a tradition that dates back to the 19th-century beginnings of Hawaii's plantation era, when everyone came from someplace else and pineapple and sugarcane workers needed to get along in order to survive in their new home. So it would be uncharacteristic, they say, for a true son of Hawaii to go to a big city like Chicago and brag about the sun-drenched beaches, tight family ways and tasty food...
Obama becomes an island boy immediately upon touching down on Hawaiian soil. In August, when he returned for a family vacation in Honolulu, Obama was quick to mention the local restaurants where he ate when he was growing up and the food he had been craving on the campaign trail. He even used the common island greeting "Howzit," a Pidgin English version of "How's it going?" "How's everybody doing today?" Obama asked the crowd that turned out to greet him. "Howzit?" Then he talked about going to lunch: "I might go to Zippy's. I might...
...didn't go to church at all, citing the hassle of making a church set up security screening for parishioners. The Clintons drove down the street every Sunday to Foundry United Methodist, where Chelsea sang in the youth choir. George W. Bush never became a regular member of any local church, preferring to worship most often at the chapel at Camp David...
Joseph Loconte, visiting professor at Pepperdine University and a former Heritage Foundation fellow, suggests that you find a church that is actively engaged with struggling local communities. That can be surprisingly hard to find here, where a number of affluent churches choose to remain somewhat isolated from their urban surroundings. Loconte thinks that the nondenominational Washington Community Fellowship on Capitol Hill has the right orientation. "It's a church whose politics is difficult to tell and whose engagement to the community is real," he says. Loconte also says you might look for a church that is involved with the STEP...
...grid in three years. The new smart technology would figure out the cheapest and most efficient times to run everything from major heating and cooling systems in public buildings to your clothes dryer. • Increased investment in mass transit. Hendricks says there are $20 billion to $30 billion in local-rail and alternative-energy bus projects that have already been approved by Congress but not yet funded by the Federal Government...