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...should the West respond to the economic metamorphoses brought about by the rise of India and China? Those who fear they will be hurt by the changes at hand usually call for protectionism. Those who expect to benefit tend to insist that the free market instead be given free rein. Neither option works very well. In the U.S. as well as in Europe and other developed economies, every job moved offshore leaves a tiny hole in the fabric of middle-class life. There are gains to the world economy, but those are not so immediate as the pain...
...Rochester's Nasr says new technologies coming to market now will allow remanufacturers to work with more complex electronic components, things like automotive navigation systems and dvd players that people now tend to throw away when they get old or break. Cars can easily last 10 years, he says, but many gadgets are obsolete within two. He envisions automakers taking cars returned after their two- or three-year leases expire and "refreshing" them with more up-to-date remanufactured components before they're put on sale in the preowned market...
...addition of Beckham, which is important for the league. Although there is a notion that American soccer fans are unsophisticated, MLS Commissioner Garber believes that the level of interest and soccer smarts is very high, and they expect the best when they watch a match. American soccer fans tend to watch English or European leagues on satellite or cable television, but with the signing of Beckham and other players (the Chicago Fire signed popular Mexican forward Cuauhtemoc Blanco this year under the Beckham rule), the MLS hopes increasing revenue will allow the league to become competitive with every league...
...view of the city below, one 86-year-old Rome native was looking up at the giant bronze Garibaldi. "He was a man of action," said Bruno Ambrosi dei Magistris, a retired paint company owner, sporting a white moustache and aviator sunglasses. "Sure we know that Italians tend to be self-centered. But when called to do something serious, we respond." In Italy, the iconography of Garibaldi - a dashing figure with piercing eyes and a mane of hair - has been massaged by virtually every generation since the 1815-70 Risorgimento established the modern country we know today. Mussolini cited Garibaldi...
...addition to the "disengaged" and the "disguised" partisans, the "dislocated" tend to agree with one party more fiscally than they do socially, the "disillusioned" are fundamentally troubled by politics today, and the "deliberators" define the swing voter who fails to toe party lines...