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Senator Hillary Clinton recently has taken to scolding Senator Barack Obama for being all talk and no action. Swap Obama’s speech for his position paper, however, and you’ll see he does offer specifics—lots of them. On top of $210 billion in new government spending, Obama promises to shackle U.S. businesses with heavy regulation. If he becomes president, he’ll do more than bring change: he’ll force Americans into an economic straitjacket. To “rebuild the middle class,” Obama will resuscitate labor...
...doubles portion to earn the point. At No. 1 doubles, Peterzan and Rosekrans suffered an 8-2 defeat, and at the No. 2 level Schnitter and Stewart fell, 8-5. “A lot of us were playing together for the first time, [since] we had to swap the lineup at the last minute,” Peterzan said. “It was a bit of a slow start, but it got more competitive at the end.” Harvard’s top singles player, junior Beier Ko, was out with the flu and freshman star...
...tell her. I live inside the congestion charging zone, so will be expected to pay $50 every time I take the car out of the garage on a weekday. That's almost the cost of a minicab journey to Heathrow. Or a pizza dinner. I'll have to swap the Mercedes for a new car and my carbon footprint will get bigger. "If you hardly drive it, that's a really good point," she says. "There are people like you, but hopefully not too many. People with very old, well-looked-after Mercedes are probably not the target of this...
...trend: the rise of a Euro-Muslim middle class. A Gallup poll last year found European Muslims to be at least as likely to identify themselves as British, French or German as the general populations. Migrants' children have begun moving from corner shops and factory floors to offices. They swap business cards at Muslim networking events like Britain's Emerald Network or Holland's Toward a New Start, a group for Moroccans who, in the words of founder Ahmed Larouz, are "the sort of people who say, 'I want to be CEO of Philips.'" Parisian professionals...
...will feel like they can charge their cars whenever they need to. Since most people seldom drive more than 100 miles at a time, wiring workplaces and public spaces like shopping malls should keep most cars juiced. For longer drives, customers will be able to pull into a battery-swap station and get a fresh battery. Better Place, and not individual drivers, owns the batteries, which should keep the price of the cars comparable to gas-powered vehicles...