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...outside interference," to respect national sovereignty in ways Latin America felt the Bush Administration too often ignored, is particularly savvy. In fact, because Obama has been so measured in his response to Iran, Tehran's allies in Latin America, including Chávez, have had trouble gaining anti-Yanqui traction over that crisis. "Latin America's leftist governments have all been waiting for Obama to blow his cool, but it's not happening," says Michael Shifter, vice president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. "It throws them off base...
...moment, even public plan options that don't potentially undercut private insurers lack traction with Senate Republicans, which is why Democratic Senator Kent Conrad over the weekend proposed the creation of "consumer health cooperatives." The idea, in essence, is to create a public option that isn't technically public at all; according to a one-page Conrad proposal circulating this week, state or regional nonprofit cooperatives would be created by federal charter and be member-owned and operated by boards of directors. The co-ops would operate by the rules of the insurance exchange and be capitalized by initial federal...
...says. Instead, Brewer, who also works as a distributor, fields calls for paddleboards from kayak and surf shops all over the country. "They know that's the only thing they can sell right now," says Brewer, who compares the sport's skyrocketing trajectory to snowboarding, which similarly gained traction in the 1980s and '90s. "A lot of people are using it to help save their business." (Read about how recession is threatening the original Surf City...
...just yesterday - fortuitous timing for Geithner - both the U.S. and China reported economic data that buoyed equity markets on both sides of the Pacific. In China, the monthly purchasing manager's index for manufacturing was stronger than expected, showing "for the first time that policy is really gaining traction [in China]," says Eric Fishwick, head of economic research at CLSA Asia Pacific Markets in Hong Kong. At the same time, in the U.S., data showed that personal income in April rose 0.5%, an encouraging number. On a day when General Motors, once the world's largest industrial corporation, declared bankruptcy...
...these reasons, says Tobias Leenaert, co-director of Ethical Vegetarian Alternative, a nonprofit funded by the regional Flemish government, "it's almost impossible to be against meat reduction. You can argue against vegetarianism, but not against cutting back on meat." That's a view that is gaining traction among those who hope to reshape meat consumption from an animal rights issue into an environmental and public health one. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, for example, recently spearheaded a "meatless Mondays" campaign in which it and 28 other public health schools run local outreach programs that...