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...Expo is shuttering on July 31 - newcomers such as Kijiji and Oodle are gaining real traction. Better designed and marketed, these upstarts are reshaping a long-stagnant sector of the web. Meanwhile, the entire online classified market category has surged some 35% over the past year, as more sellers post ads online and more cash-strapped buyers hunt for bargains there...
...individuals - the Commissioner for External Relations, the High Representative and the Foreign Minister of the country holding the rotating presidency - try to represent the E.U. externally. This ineffective system causes much confusion in places like Beijing, Moscow and Washington. The treaty would merge the three jobs into one permanent post, supported by an embryonic E.U. foreign ministry...
Faust said in the fall that she hoped to conclude the search by the end of last calendar year and expressed some frustration this spring about not having found a person for the post...
...however, France appears ready to return to the NATO fold. On Tuesday, President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a 15-year military plan that aims to deepen France's involvement with its NATO and European allies in the fight against post-9/11 threats. And critically, he indicated that France will soon rejoin NATO's military command, even if its nuclear forces would remain under strictly national control. "We can renew our relations with NATO without fearing for our independence and without the risk of being unwillingly dragged into a war," Sarkozy said...
...Here in Des Moines, we've had flooding in pockets but have fared relatively well so far, compared to eastern Iowa (and to the 1993 flood). There's relief that the downtown area has largely been spared major damage, thanks to bolstered flood protection post-1993. But feverish attempts to bolster a levee near a neighborhood north of downtown ultimately failed. Watching televised scenes of water rushing over destroyed sandbags into streets where people live and work was not what my teenage son and I, among hundreds of volunteer sandbaggers in Des Moines, had hoped to see. But like many...