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That was then; this is now. Strong government incentives and regulations, car and battery-maker innovations and the public's genuine concern for global warming are all contributing to the EV enthusiasm. But utilities are working feverishly to put infrastructure standards in place; the prospect of managing rapid EV growth has utility executives both amped up over the opportunity and queasy about unplanned snafus...
...been expecting; Intel's earnings also beat expectations by a wide margin and the company offered encouraging guidance about the third quarter. The chipmaker's shares rose more than 7% Wednesday, putting the stock's rise so far this year at 25%. Intel's Wednesday move triggered a strong rally across the tech sector, which climbed more than 4%. Financial shares finally joined in on Goldman's good news from earlier in the week and rose 4.8%. By the market close Wednesday, every major market sector was in positive territory...
...fault lines are opening up everywhere you look. Liberals are worried that Obama is going squishy on including a strong, government-run "public option" among the health-care choices available to Americans. Conservatives are warning that the legislation won't do enough to control health costs. Rural lawmakers are complaining that proposed Medicare cuts will fall too hard on their states. The two sides of the abortion debate are tussling over whether the procedure should be covered under the plan. And those are just the arguments going on among Democrats...
...Senate side of the Capitol, this comment sounds like a bow to political reality. Whereas the Health Committee has passed a bill with a strong public plan, the Finance Committee is looking at a number of weaker versions, including one that would operate as a cooperative. But over in the House - where three key committee chairmen unveiled a health measure that has a public plan and puts new taxes on the wealthy - Emanuel's words stirred up painful memories from the early Clinton years. In 1993, House Democrats backed the President on an unpopular energy tax - based on the heat...
Iran's ethnic tensions were an issue during the presidential election campaign, not least because two of the key challengers to Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karroubi (a Lor) and Mir-Hossein Mousavi (an Azeri) are from minority communities. The two campaigned in minority areas to an unprecedented degree, and their strong support at campaign events outside Tehran belies the government claim that opposition demonstrators represent an urban élite out of touch with the pro-Ahmadinejad countryside. But since the election, little has been heard from the provinces, besides reports of clashes in Iranian Kurdistan. The Western press has been restricted...