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...just buying a live tree doesn't guarantee a green Christmas. Instead of simply tossing your tree in the trash on Dec. 26, recycle it. Thousands of municipalities across the country offer Christmas-tree-recycling programs; you can look them up on earth911.com The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will even collect discarded trees and use them to create underwater forests in man-made lakes, sprucing up the habitats of fish and other aquatic critters...
...Bill Saporito points out [Nov. 24]. What should GM do in the meantime? Get out and sell its vehicles. I have rented GM compact cars for the past 20 years and find them to be of excellent quality. GM salespeople need to get out of their cushy showrooms and offer to take people out for a demo ride and lunch at the deli. The company could win by a landslide. Perry Munson, GROSSE POINTE, MICH...
...blockade and hampered by its own gross inefficiency. At an open-air market behind the capitol, mangoes, okra, guavas and limes are everywhere--and cheap. Good thing too because most Cubans earn from $15 to $25 a month and survive off the ration books that offer them sugar, rice, beans and (only for the elderly) cigars. But to get past subsistence, you need to shop at the air-conditioned hard-currency stores. That's where Damaris goes to find a specialized nail clipper she needs for the manicurist test she's taking the following week. But it costs nearly...
President-elect Barack Obama filled the last of the four top economic positions Monday, announcing that his Council of Economic Advisers will be chaired by University of California at Berkeley economist Christina D. Romer, who was a subject of national indignation earlier this year when Harvard did not offer her a tenured professorship. Economists, including Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw, a former CEA chief under President Bush, have hailed Obama’s pick as an “excellent choice.” Though the role of the CEA has been diminished since former President Clinton created the National...
...News Service last weekend. Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has pushed the Senate to enact comprehensive immigration reform in recent years. Last June, amid a fevered debate and nation-wide protests, the Senate failed to pass a massive immigration reform act that included a provision allowing public colleges to offer in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants. If passed, the bill would have also opened a path to citizenship for illegal aliens who entered the country as children and who either complete two years of higher education or serve in the military. Both provisions were also part of the Development...