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...Bring Me a Coke? TY! As a baby-boom mother of two millennials, I got a chuckle from Nancy Gibbs' Essay [March 22]. The fact that younger people are more optimistic doesn't come without a price. My husband and I pay for college expenses and cell phones and have sent the girls on trips I dreamed of as a child. And one of my daughters lives at home. If I'd had that growing up, I would be optimistic too! Robin Cornick West Hills, Calif...
...changing Greece will not be easy. Papandreou is pushing ahead with pension reforms and an overhaul that will see more Greeks pay tax. Some of his efforts to improve governance - he wants to put all government decisions and documents on the Internet, for instance - have already been resisted by Socialist colleagues. Change, he says, will be painful. "But if we do what is necessary, we'll come out of this stronger and much more viable." There's no intrinsic flaw in the Greek character, he argues. "It's not in our DNA, it's not even in our cultural...
...improvements, progressives need to push back against language in the debate that tends to paint undocumented immigrants as guilty of anything but attempting to improve their lot. As [Senator Lindsey] Graham and [Senator Charles] Schumer wrote ... undocumented immigrants 'would be required to admit they broke the law and to pay their debt to society.' There's another case to be made: we owe a debt to them...
...work for free. Marian Schembari quit her unpaid internship at a Web-based publisher in New York City after three months of living with her parents. The 22-year-old, who graduated from college last year, reached the point where she felt that working 40-hour weeks for no pay was "degrading." But Schembari, who is now freelancing, still thinks she got something valuable out of the internship. "I was able to write for a website with a decent readership, and I built up my clips," she says. "My bosses were nice. They just couldn't afford to pay...
Eldrup says Denmark makes a good test case for the large-scale production of electric cars. For starters, the country does not have an auto industry. Second, Danes pay a 180% tax for new-car registration, while there is no such fee imposed on electric autos, an attractive incentive for consumers. "If we are successful, that gives us a lot of learning and new development in new technology and businesses in Denmark," says Eldrup. He adds, "It also gives us value in exporting." (See the top 10 news stories...