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...policeman in attacks blamed on dissident republicans opposed to power-sharing. And on Jan. 8, another policeman was wounded in a bombing. The Independent Monitoring Commission, a paramilitary-watchdog group, said in November that dissidents pose a greater security threat now than at any time in the past six years. Many fear a political collapse could play into their hands and lead to more attacks. (See pictures of the British army leaving Northern Ireland...
...farm in coastal Maine, a barn is going up. Right now it's little more than a concrete slab and some wooden beams, but when it's finished, the barn will provide winter shelter for up to six cows and a few head of sheep. None of this would be remarkable if it weren't for the fact that the people building the barn are two of the most highly regarded organic-vegetable farmers in the country: Eliot Coleman wrote the bible of organic farming, The New Organic Grower, and Barbara Damrosch is the Washington Post's gardening columnist...
...sentencing of a 19-year-old ninth-grade dropout caught breaking into a public school, apparently to steal computers. The hearing's main attraction was not the guilty man or the judge but Robert Bobb, the state-appointed emergency financial manager of Detroit's public schools. In the last six months of 2009, Bobb told the court, nearly 500 computers were stolen from schools, costing his system some $600,000. "The Detroit public-school system isn't an electronics store," he said...
...that's because there are no jobs to be found. With an estimated six people applying for every job available, there's plenty of merit to that argument. "Still, the unemployment rate rose from 8.6% in March 2009 to 10% now even as the job-vacancy rate held steady," says Steven Davis, a leading labor economist at the University of Chicago's School of Business...
...Three CEOs had rushed to Washington to beg for a bailout. Detroit's arrogant insularity had left it with crushing debt, slipping standards and lots full of cars nobody wanted. The Big Three's days may be numbered. Ingrassia foresees a future in which five or six smaller companies split their share of the U.S. market, with 10% or 20% for each. The ultimate question facing the new leaders is whether they will learn from their predecessors' mistakes...