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...November. The Beehive State was one of just three states in which President George W. Bush swept every county in 2004-all of them except for two with more than 55% of the vote. In the state's 2008 primaries on Super Tuesday, Republican voters outnumbered Democrats by a margin...
...swoon makes imports, from food to commodities, more expensive. Jocelyn Tran, whose Ho Chi Minh City company contracts with local factories to supply apparel to U.S. stores, says the price of Chinese-made yarn has jumped 15% this year. "Our factories are absorbing it by cutting out the profit margin," says Tran. Even though some factories have raised wages, she complains that workers are still going on strike...
...food prices are likely to be 30 or 40% higher than they were at the beginning of this century," says Steve Wiggins, rural-policy researcher at the Overseas Development Institute in London. For the world's impoverished masses, who already spend most of their earnings simply feeding themselves, that margin between survival and starvation has become uncomfortably narrow...
...website like GetAFreelancer.com and you'll see dozens of ads placed by spammers and other bad actors, who hire whole teams of people to read and type out CAPTCHAS, all day, by hand, by the thousands. ("How the hell can they still maintain a profit margin?" Von Ahn wonders. "This is amazing...
...Show up they did, shattering turnout records. Obama prevailed with a surprising eight-point margin over Edwards, who came in second. Obama counts Iowa as his biggest victory, the one that foreshadowed the rest. "Voters under 30 participated at the same rates as voters over 65. That had never happened before," the Democratic nominee says. "That continues to be something I'm very proud of - how we've expanded the voter rolls in every state where we've campaigned. I think that means we can put into play some states that might normally not be in play...