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...online auction site eBay, a popular venue for people to sell off coveted tickets like these to the highest bidder, announced that it would remove any postings concerning Michael Jackson memorial tickets in an effort to combat scalpers. On the site on Monday night, the only items available under "Michael Jackson Memorial" were T shirts. Still, organizers admitted they couldn't completely stop the blatant profiteering. "For those who take advantage of this," promoter AEG's CEO Tim Leiweke said last week, "shame on you." (See pictures of Jackson's Neverland Ranch...
...become law - no sure thing, given the 60 votes needed in the upper chamber - it would establish the first national caps on carbon emissions. It would also create what would almost certainly be the world's biggest greenhouse-gas market, since companies would have the option to buy and sell carbon credits and offsets. Every smart, efficient enterprise that can rapidly bring down its emissions will be able to make a mint on the carbon market - and so will the carbon middlemen...
...page from F.D.R. The first President to use private polling, Roosevelt understood that his popularity could help propel his political agenda. Personality doesn't trump policy, but it can drive it. F.D.R.'s relentless optimism (the motto that graced his office was LET UNCONQUERABLE GLADNESS DWELL) helped him sell his policies to America...
...German soldiers. At the memorial, senior Cabinet ministers went on the defensive, pledging that German soldiers would stay in Afghanistan. "We're in Afghanistan because we have to protect the security of German citizens in Germany," said Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung. But that message is hard to sell in Germany. A recent poll by the Forsa Institute found that 61% of Germans want their troops out of Afghanistan...
...Russia's expanding trade with Burma includes an agreement to sell the poverty-stricken nation a nuclear research reactor, and the regime has also been bolstering ties with North Korea, receiving arms shipments from its sister Asian pariah state, and employing North Korean engineers to build massive underground bunkers at its fortress-like capital of Naypyidaw...