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...next decade, Barack Obama seems to be opening the door a little wider to an approach he soundly rejected when John McCain proposed it during last year's presidential campaign: taxing the health benefits that employers provide their workers. "This argument has evolved," he said Wednesday at a town-hall meeting on health care in Annandale, Va. And it appears that Obama...
...Pysarenko says statistics show that 75% of Ukrainians who use gambling establishments are university students or high school kids, and that up to 5% of large-town populations are addicts. A survey in May by pollster FOM-Ukraine showed that 55% of Ukrainians believe gambling leads to addiction in adults, while 46% say it breaks up families and 44% associate it with crime. And experts say that because of lax legislation, around 60% to 70% of Ukraine's gambling establishments were operating illegally. Pysarenko estimates that the industry is worth about $5 billion per year, only 2% of which made...
...even with these cost-cutting measures, the threat of layoffs had loomed since April, when Jackson said at a town hall meeting that further staff reductions would likely be needed to bring the School's costs in line with its new financial realities...
...leaving the streetlights on all night. "We found out that on each stretch of road, people only switch on the lights up to three times each night," explains Frank Bräuer, project leader at Lemgo. "That's why this system works in villages or the outskirts of a town where residents don't need the lights burning all night." But Dial4Light won't work for everyone, he admits: "It wouldn't be suitable for a big city like New York or London, where there's a lot going on at night." (See 10 things to do in London...
...Lemgo says there are plans to launch the scheme in five other countries and it has received requests for its new technology from all over the world, including Sweden, Britain, the U.S. and Dubai. With the recession biting into town-council coffers everywhere and growing pressure to reduce carbon emissions, letting residents light up the night only when they need to seems like a bright idea...