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...Peter Robinson announced that he would step aside as First Minister for six weeks, saying he needed "time to deal with family matters" and vowing to clear his name. The appropriately named Mrs. Robinson, a prominent politician in her own right, gave up her seats in the British Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly and checked into a psychiatric hospital. But much more is at stake over the next six weeks than the couple's political careers: the scandal comes at a critical time for the province's shaky power-sharing agreement. For months, the two biggest parties in government, Robinson...
...time being, write-in responses still often need to be shoehorned into broader categories for the purpose of following certain laws based on official statistics. But in the longer term, the write-in box could prove to be an even more momentous step in the evolution of racial categorization than the ability to check more than one race. By encouraging wider swaths of people to explain as precisely as possible how they see themselves, the Census is implicitly acknowledging that its count of the U.S. population is increasingly becoming a conduit for self-expression. "We are measuring the characteristics...
...main reason some French executives continue to fear that the current global recession could morph into something more serious: a 1930s-style meltdown capable of shaking the entire economic structure to its foundations. Were that to happen, chain-reaction bankruptcies of companies could force the French state to step in and nationalize industries, dismantling the boardroom power structure. (See pictures of President Nicolas Sarkozy celebrating Bastille...
...faith: that there is an afterlife, that there is some order and purpose to this universe, that there's some reason and purpose for us being here in earthly life. We're finding verification, if you will, for what so many religions have been saying. It's an important step toward bringing science and religion together...
...first glance, it's an odd step and a markedly different business for YouTube. The site's revenue comes from the advertisements (served by corporate parent Google) that run along with the video clips. But the site, which incurs massive bandwidth costs from millions of simultaneously streaming videos, has yet to turn a profit. YouTube has long had an interest in partnering with major studios for a foray into the rental business, but at this point it is late in the game: Apple's iTunes began offering movie rentals in 2008, and Amazon.com has a movie store as well...