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...Boeing gobbled up McDonnell Douglas a decade ago, leaving Boeing the lone American manufacturer of large airframes. Apparently, Boeing's boosters want the company to have a guaranteed monopoly on selling big airplanes to the U.S. military. But the prize market, of course, remains commercial aviation. On Wednesday, Toyota announced it may soon develop a new generation of fuel-efficient passenger airplanes. If Boeing's boosters get their way, the company can grow fat and lazy at the Pentagon trough, while innovations and breakthroughs come from companies like Airbus - and ultimately, perhaps, Toyota - fighting for every sale...
Power, a Pulitzer-Prize winning author known for her advocacy of humanitarian intervention, made the remarks in an interview London with The Scotsman...
...Contemporary Japanese Studies. In the 2007 Times Higher Education Supplement, an influential U.K.-based annual survey of universities all over the world, only four Japanese universities ranked in the top 100, compared with 37 from the U.S. and 19 from the U.K. "If your aim is a Nobel Prize in chemistry," Dujarric says, "you don't come to Japan...
...fact, the state's April 22 primary is shaping up to be another so-called decisive battle in the Democratic campaign. It is the single biggest prize in the next six weeks, with 103 delegates up for a vote. With her comeback victories in Texas and Ohio, Clinton needs a solid victory here to justify a potential triumph at the convention with a superdelegate strategy. Obama needs to counter that strategy by piling up the pledged delegates, to blunt any Clinton hold on the superdelegates that is based on momentum and growing popular support. "Neither Clinton nor Obama can afford...
...With its 188 delegates, Pennsylvania holds the next major prize in the Democratic race, but the state doesn't hold its primary until April 22. In her remarks last night, Clinton made clear that the state is next in her sights: "People in Pennsylvania and other states want their voices to count, and they should be heard." And they'll be hearing plenty from a revitalized Clinton campaign in the next few months...