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...More so than many of their European counterparts, America's new environmentalists believe climate change is about more than saving the environment. They care about polar bears, but like Schwarzenegger, they also view global warming as an economic challenge and opportunity - an outlook shared by a growing number of U.S. businesses. Last year some of the country's most influential corporations - including GE, DuPont and the power company NRG - formed the U.S. Climate Action Partnership to lobby Washington for a carbon cap-and-trade system. "This has to be a top domestic issue," says NRG CEO David Crane. "We have...
...every rule. After he decisively beat former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in neighboring New Hampshire, McCain's low-budget campaign expected a windfall of fresh donations to help propel it forward. But the haul was disappointing; donors still weren't ready to buy in to a candidate they view as too much of a risk. The towering obstacle between McCain and victory is not so much his rivals for the nomination but the suspicion long held by many Republicans, especially rock-ribbed conservatives, that the Senator and former war hero is too much the maverick on issues that matter deeply...
...directed by Sarah Polley, who turned 28 this month; Polley also got a nomination for Adapted Screenplay. A slot for Best Actress slot was filled by Juno's Ellen Page, the 20-year-old Nova Scotian, and for Supporting Actress, Saoirse Ronan, 13, as the girl whose first view of sex shocks her into a lie that outlives its victims...
Even before U.S. markets reopened, the Federal Reserve Board cut the federal funds rate 75 basis points, to 3.50%, "in view of a weakening of the economic outlook and increasing downside risks to growth," the Board said in a statement. It was the first time since the markets reopened after Sept. 11, 2001, that the Fed had changed the federal funds rate between scheduled meetings. The move buoyed stocks in Europe, and added to speculation that the European Central Bank and the Bank of England would also cut rates in an attempt to stave off a slowdown. In morning trading...
...military bureaucracy can itself be a threat to the funds. A recent turnover of generals in Baghdad has led to a routine review of guidelines, regulations and spending. But what the incoming generals might view as cutting the fat off programs, lower-ranking officers see as a threat to the very goodwill and positive rapport they've worked months to established between themselves and community leaders. Brown says that higher-ups are going to cut the money each contractor receives - Sunni leaders who stick their necks out and who have been increasingly targeted by insurgents in the past few months...