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...Dealers, while loathing the 136 pages of rules surrounding the program and criticizing the government's unfriendly website for processing claims, are uniformly eager to see the program continue. "You've got to understand, I'm for anything that helps sell cars," noted a Michigan dealer, who described how he had to painstakingly feed claims into the site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Automakers Give Rave Reviews to 'Cash for Clunkers' | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

...industries, and would like to see that number go up to one million over the next 15 years. "Robotics is to be for the Japanese economy in the 21st century what automobiles were in the 20th," says Jennifer Robertson, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. (See Japan's Greatest Design Hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind Japan's Love Affair with Robots? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...most difficult things to do in a democracy is react to a problem that is real, but not immediately threatening. Obama is trying to do this in two monster areas, health care and climate change. "He's killing me," says Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, referring to the hordes of special-interest groups that have camped on her doorstep and clogged her phone lines. Stabenow is smiling as she says it. She supports the broad thrust of Obama's initiatives. "But you can't believe all the groups that want to make their case. There are the doctors, the nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Special Interests Stymie Health-Care Reform? | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: California's Budget Crisis | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...Senate ignored such pleas to approve an amendment by Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, its ranking Republican, to strike the $1.75 billion their committee had added (over Levin and McCain's objections) for seven more F-22s. Both Pentagon and congressional aides say the vote effectively ends the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense Secretary Gates Downs the F-22 | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

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