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...economic conditions as only fair or poor, and despite heavy government spending to counter the recession, slightly more than half of those polled feel there has been no improvement in their personal economic situation. Perhaps most troubling, the TIME poll reveals that Americans fear what's to come next from Wall Street. In hindsight, 55% believe the government rescue of financial institutions was wrong, and a majority also believe that the financial industry has too much influence in Washington...
Indeed, these banks ought to acknowledge that the government saved them. For starters, they ought to stop gouging the vulnerable among us with overdraft fees and credit-card games. "Reform" is supposed to take effect early next year, but banks have accelerated their gouging since the legislation passed...
After a fourteen-minute lull where the Eagles failed to convert on their next four shot attempts, Feole completed her hat trick, this time off a pass from Tavener...
...cuisines. Bermuda banned all fast-food restaurants to squelch a McDonald's planned for the island. A French farmer, Jose Bove, became something of a national hero in 1999 after he and a band of activists destroyed a McDonald's under construction to protest globalization and "bad food." The next year, a bomb detonated in a French McDonald's, killing a 27-year-old employee. No one claimed responsibility. (Read "Supersizing Europe: The McDonald's Stimulus Plan...
...none of this is to mention that Afghanistan is a country swimming in the heroin trade. Illicit narcotics is conservatively put at $3 billion a year - about 15% of Afghanistan's GDP. Finding someone not one way or another involved in it is next to impossible. (See six ways...