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...consolidation is happening on the other side of the working world: between labor unions. The United Steelworkers (USW), America's largest private-sector union, is joining up with Unite, Britain's largest national union, to form the world's first transatlantic union. The deal, set to be inked on Wednesday at the Steelworkers' International Convention in Las Vegas, will create the grandiosely named Workers Uniting: The Global Union. Says USW President Leo W. Gerard: "We're creating a new union here, with a constitution, a mission and staff...
...credit, Crist has at least started the state's first real alternative energy campaign - Florida Power & Light announced this week that it will soon build three solar power plants, including one at the Kennedy Space Center and another that will be the world's largest. And on Wednesday Crist signed a bill (albeit weakened by the G.O.P.-led state legislature) to finally phase in auto and carbon emissions limits in Florida - including the first "cap and trade" arrangement in the Southeast, whereby companies that exceed their air pollution caps can buy emissions credits from firms that keep pollutants below their...
...drilling to help ease America's gas-pump nightmare. Crist, who runs a beach-rich state that even Jeb Bush defended against offshore rigs, turned heads when he agreed with McCain. Or he at least said he was "willing to consider" the idea, as he told TIME on Wednesday, but only "if it could be proven to me that drilling off Florida's coast would be far enough, safe enough and clean enough" to avoid disastrous oil spills, especially during the region's hurricanes. "As long as I'm Governor, no Floridian will ever be able...
...Wednesday, after the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional in cases of child rape, Obama surprised some observers by siding with the hardline minority of Justices Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito. At a press conference after the decision, Obama said, "I think that the rape of a small child, six or eight years old, is a heinous crime and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution...
...Olympics and World Cup, presented special complications, though. Germany played Turkey, which also happens to be the fatherland of Germany's largest minority, a 2.5 million strong community descended from gastarbeiter who were invited to what was then West Germany from Turkey as laborers in the 1960s. For Wednesday night's game, Turkish fans gathered across Germany in neighborhoods like Berlin's Kreuzberg to wave the crimson flag (Turkey itself was awash in red) and root for their team. The Turkish President, Abdullah Gul, traveled to Basel for the game, sitting a seat away from the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel...