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Polls show the Florida race split almost evenly among the three candidates who have won a major primary or caucus and Giuliani, whose campaign strategy was prefaced on ignoring the early states and betting big on Florida. "It's a microcosm of the nation in many ways," says Newhouse. "It's southern, with an extensive northern population. There's a substantial population of establishment Republicans, a substantial population of evangelical Republicans. If [a candidate] can win Florida, they can probably win the nomination...
...Israeli government announced a major initiative to push the nation's drivers toward electric cars on Monday, a move meant to both lessen dependence on foreign oil and address the environmental and health hazards of gas-burning vehicles...
...cameras are only a piece of a big puzzle that ranks Chicago as one of the most techno-savvy departments in the nation. The city's advanced weapons against crime include instant suspect notifications and photos that are sent to police in the field via BlackBerrys; special cameras that police can use to scan partial or full license plates to see if a car is wanted; and gunshot detection equipment in certain pockets of the city that uses sensors to alert cops to shootings before citizens even pick up the phone to call them...
...growing importance of Hispanics, who make up nearly a quarter of the state's population and the power of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who hails from Nevada. It agreed to hold a caucus instead of a primary because state officials believed they it would come second in the nation after Iowa and before New Hampshire, which prizes its first-in-the-nation status. But after Michigan and Florida jumped their primaries ahead and forced Iowa and New Hampshire even earlier, Nevada now finds itself the fifth state that will pick presidential nominees. And because South Carolina is holding...
...mixed work environments, most Atlantans choose to spend their leisure time with people who look just like them. Contrary to its cosmopolitan exterior, flashy tourism ads and the rhetoric of local politicians - and despite the fact that it has the fastest growing Latino population of any city in the nation, and a foreign-born population that grew by almost 50% between 2000 and 2005 - there continue to be two distinctly different Atlantas...