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...city government. "The women and men balance each other," she says. "Women look more at what's not being said, at underlying motivations." Foust, 44, is an unusually young female mayor. Walsh notes that a major reason for women's underrepresentation is that younger women already have the difficult task of balancing work and family; the women who do go into politics tend to do so later in life and thus have shorter political careers. Yvonne Johnson, the mayor of Greensboro, N.C. - where six of nine city council members are women - has figured out how to do it all. "They...
Daigle is a member of the U.S.-Canada Power Outage Task Force, which investigated the causes behind the blackout, and worked on ways to prevent another one - but that may not be possible. He calls the blackout a "once in 10 years event," and past blackouts in 1996, 1977 and 1965 bear that out. (After the 2003 event, Daigle notes, some utility operators in western Europe said that such a widespread blackout could never occur with the continent's better designed grid - but in fact a major failure hit their system just a couple months later.) "[Failure] is always possible...
...Medpedia founders acknowledge that creating and interlinking the Web pages over the next few years for such a large body of ever-changing information will not be an easy task given that there are over 30,000 known diseases and conditions and more than 10,000 drugs prescribed annually...
...creative team for the revival has managed the difficult task of recapturing the '60s spirit without resorting to irony or camp. Director Diane Paulus says her young cast (most of them--including Jonathan Groff, a Tony nominee for Spring Awakening, and Will Swenson--are better singers than the originals) has gained a new appreciation of those distant counterculture years. "I think people are desperately longing to reconnect," she says, "to a time when you as a citizen felt like you could make a change in your country." Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's artistic director and the guiding spirit behind...
...this year McCain's approach to the economy may be squandering that reservoir of goodwill. During a primary-campaign stopover, he offered a straight-talk diagnosis: "Some jobs that have left Michigan are not coming back." He has since tried to massage the message, but that task was made more difficult during a visit with GM workers, which McCain spent explaining why one of his closest advisers had just dismissed concerns about the economy as a "mental recession...