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...Environmental Hero" Shai Agassi claims that electric cars produce no carbon emissions. But the electricity to run such a car must come from somewhere. Unless the car happens to be in a nation that draws its power entirely from renewable sources (sadly not the case anywhere), electric cars serve only to shift the location where fossil fuels are burned. Ronan Evans, Jerrabomberra, New South Wales...
...power. Yet Europe will get out of this mess by being Europe: by bickering, compromising, doing less than required, and doing it slowly. Americans underestimate the Old Lady's moxy just as Europeans underrate Yankee vitality and ingenuity. Still, it's a reasonable bet that the U.S., one nation with one government, will emerge from the wreckage sooner than the E.U. does...
Throughout its rocky rise to becoming the nation's most crucial swing state, Florida has had one electoral constant: the battle for its prized 27 votes has centered on its politically motivated retirees and condo commandos. In fact, if there is any key state where Barack Obama's focus on the youth vote wouldn't seem to be much of an asset, it's Florida, where discussions of Social Security and Medicare have traditionally trumped all other issues. But the once easily pigeonholed demographics in the Sunshine State are changing, and many pundits say the 30-and-under crowd could...
...last thing the McCain campaign needs to hear right now. Florida, run by a Republican Governor and legislature, was supposed to be the Arizona senator's to lose. But while polls through September showed him and Obama in a dead heat, Obama seems to be pulling away as the nation's economic crisis worsens. Four polls released last week show Obama not only leading -one, by Quinnipiac University, has him up by as much as eight points - but breaking the 50% barrier for the first time...
...parents might agree. Families across India are losing faith in the nation's public school system. In 1993, just over 10% of primary-school age village children were enrolled in private schools. By 2006, the figure had nearly doubled. A fifth of students between the ages of 6 and 7 cannot recognize letters and read words, according to an annual survey by Pratham, a Mumbai-based NGO that tracks children's literacy across India in order to assess the efficiency of rural and government school education. Though Pratham's 2007 figures show an improvement, the figures are still grim...