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Supporters expect the project to mean great things for the Land of Enchantment. With site tours and a museum planned, organizers hope to welcome 1 million visitors annually. An independent study has forecast up to 5,000 new jobs and a $1 billion boost to the region's economy as Virgin Galactic and other aerospace companies move from tourism into commercial spaceflight like low-cost satellite launches...
...response, Mitelman joked, "It's too early in your career for you to be mean to your manager...
...state is voluntary, so it is impossible to get an exact count of how many patients utilize dispensaries. However, Hermes estimates that among the more than 300,000 patients statewide, tens of thousands reside in Los Angeles. "Now is the time to better evaluate what those caps mean. It may mean that demand is concentrated in a few spots in the city, and that can create its own set of problems and unintended consequences - perhaps lines out the door or lack of competition creating more of a monoculture. It's important to keep that competition going so that...
...course, that sort of utopianism has little place in the current hurly-burly of Indian politics. Experts worry that new states may simply mean more jockeying for power and expanded bureaucracy in a country already notorious for its spools of red tape as well as its perpetual political horse-trading. "Ultimately, fragmentation is not a substitute for good governance," says C.V. Madhukar, director of PRS Legislative Research, a Delhi nonprofit which advises the government...
Google may be valued at more than $185 billion and boast millions of users, but that doesn't mean the Internet giant is any match for the diminutive French President Nicolas Sarkozy. On Dec. 8, Sarkozy warned Google he would not allow France to be "stripped" of its literary heritage, an apparent reference to Google's enormous book-digitizing project. "We won't let ourselves be stripped of our heritage to the benefit of a big company, no matter how friendly, big or American it is," Sarkozy said during a round-table discussion in eastern France. "We are not going...