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Local U.S. officials are forever pestering the feds for help: If you don't build another bridge and put more Customs people on the ones we have, how can we solve our pollution problem, with 15-year-old cars idling in lines that stretch for miles? How can you order us to educate any child who appears on our school doorstep but not give us the money to do it? Where are we going to find enough water? The congressional Hispanic caucus wants $1 billion in spending on roads and bridges and Customs officers; El Paso state senator Eliot Shapleigh...
...Global Market Klein says [March 13] if we give middle-income Americans "economic security" in the form of government-run health care, "they might be willing to look at the rest of the world - and controversies like the Dubai Ports deal - less emotionally." Not only is it a stretch to think that government-run health care would be satisfactory (some Canadian provinces, for instance, are starting to allow more privatized care), but it flirts with absurdity to suggest that it would in any way affect the public's opinion toward foreign investment in the U.S. Mike Van Winkle Oak Park...
Apple, oft-billed as the counter-establishment alternative to monolithic Microsoft, isn’t guilt-free by any stretch: their code for copy-protecting music file is also kept under lock and key, and it’s the only language that the iPod understands. If you want to sell copy-restricted music that will play on an iPod, you’re out of luck unless you want to go through the iTunes Music Store...
...appreciated from the sky. Recently, Yu's ideas have gained new traction in high places. Environmental sustainability, green growth and resource conservation were major themes of last month's meeting of the National People's Congress. And Yu has been approved to help Shanghai rehabilitate a decrepit industrial stretch of its main river for its 2010 World Expo and to create a corridor of parkland along 1,700 m of the Grand Canal...
...with a victory over Brown in Providence on Saturday. The win came by a four-second margin after a close contest. The Black and White led by just one seat with 700 meters to go, but was able to expand its lead in the race’s final stretch. The Bears had been ranked fourth in the latest rowing polls, with Radcliffe ranked just 17th. The Black and White also tasted victory in its first action of the season, capturing the Rowlands Cup in Cambridge on March 24. Radcliffe defeated both Northeastern and Boston College to claim...