Word: takings
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...resident of New York who left Michigan four decades ago. With all due respect to the acclaimed Daniel Okrent, simply reciting old grievances repeatedly rejected by voters, such as my having "resisted ... more stringent mileage standards," seems counterintuitive to the magazine's mission. I would ask that Okrent take another look at my work and the record, including my calling on the auto industry to take "bold, serious and visionary" steps on fuel economy and my role in passing 2007's Energy Independence and Security Act, which increased fuel-economy standards 40%. I will continue to fight currency manipulation...
...Italy - all countries with a stake in the trade. "The hunt is relentless," says Michael Sutton, vice president of the Center for the Future of the Oceans at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. "These are the wolves, grizzly bears, lions and tigers of the ocean. If you take the top predators out, the ecosystem begins to get out of balance." On land, when top predators like lions or wolves die off, lesser ones like baboons or coyotes flourish, throwing an entire food chain off. The same goes for oceans. Scientists believe stocks of southern bluefin around Australia have likely...
...718th birthday - the Swiss National Museum in Zurich opened a new permanent exhibition to chart a history of immigration since the Bronze Age. In a section called "No One Has Been Here All the Time," visitors to the museum are reminded that many famous Swiss have foreign blood. Take tennis superstar Roger Federer: his dad was born South African. Exceptionalism is out of fashion these days. (Well, unless you're Chinese.) Global recession is a great leveler, its seismic shocks felt in big and small nations alike. Even Switzerland has not escaped the carnage. Its unemployment rate...
TIME cites the "paradox" that women are still unhappy, even with all their current "equality." Then it states that the poll showed women often contribute to household income yet take on more of the responsibilities for the household, children and sick or elderly parents, while earning 77¢ on the dollar compared with men. Maybe there's a correlation...
...Take This Job and Try to Love...