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...July has come and gone and the August recess is a few weeks away. It's summer's dead center point and even the obsessive presidential candidates seem to be bowing to the season with unusually sane schedules. They're still flying around the country at a steady pace, from swing state to fund raiser to photo op, still taking the occasional swipe. But neither is breaking a sweat...
...number fell 12% in May, it jumped a spectacular 35% in April. "There are always monthly fluctuations," says Wortmann. For the first six months of 2008, the industry is still expecting growth of at least 5%. One heartening factor: the engineering firms' factories continue to hum at an impressive pace - capacity use is at a near-record 91%, and there has been a big increase in investment to add new capacity, even this year. If he's right and the outlook for German exports and investment remains robust, it will do a lot to keep the rest of Europe afloat...
...recent weeks Obama has abandoned or downplayed his previous commitments on wiretaps, the pace of withdrawals from Iraq, trade with Mexico and Canada, guns, and the funding of his campaign. In most of these cases he has been moving to the center. In all of them he is taking the position most advantageous for his campaign in the fall. Left-wing bloggers, notably Arianna Huffington, have been screaming in cyberspace...
...cohort occupy a unique place in modern Chinese history. Products of China's vigorously enforced one-child policy, twenty-somethings like Mao feel that they've been left to shoulder the mistakes of their government even as they adapt to a society that is transforming at an overwhelming pace. Having missed out on the life guarantees of their parent's generation (job placement and social safety net) they're also alienated from the relative freedom enjoyed by those just a few years younger than they are. "You see my girl here", Mao Ce gestures to his young girlfriend sitting across...
...most revered down some blind alleys. In South Africa, for example, President Nelson Mandela once allowed memories of imperialism to color his views on his country's rampant violent crime, the "encouragement and commission" of which he blamed on white supremacists. In Zimbabwe, Mugabe's impatience with the slow pace of land redistribution led him to endorse the violent seizure of white farms, which quickly caused the collapse of the agriculture-based economy...