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...auto industry crisis was beginning to look complicated, the latest news from Chrysler is sure to make it a head spinner. The deal announced this week not only gives Italy's Fiat S.p.A. a flexible stake in Chrysler, but turns the ultimate control of the automaker into the financial equivalent of a five lane roundabout...
...support whatsoever. The majority of New Yorkers are trying to reduce gun violence. I just feel that everybody should know what her record is. If she changes, let's see it." - Carolyn McCarthy, a fellow Democratic Congresswoman from Long Island, New York, who harshly criticized Gillibrand's gun-control views and vowed to mount a 2010 primary challenge to the incumbent Senator if necessary, in Newsday...
President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous head of state, prides himself on state control over natural resources he nationalized the country's (massive natural gas reserves in 2006). If the past is any indication, electric carmakers should look to the Andes with sober eyes. "This is a unique opportunity for us," says Bolivian Mining Minister Luis Alberto Echazu. "The days of U.S. car companies buying cheap raw materials to sell expensive cars are over." Indeed, Bolivia's lithium abundance could put car manufacturers in the position of replacing one energy-rich Latin American U.S. critic - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
...more paper! - to the transition office. This is a new kind of politics, with the potential to be the most powerful citizen army in U.S. history. If so, it will more likely be a force for civility - for "boring" things like good governance, for new ideas about how to control the cost of entitlements (which Obama pointedly mentioned in his speech) - rather than a rabble spamming the offices of recalcitrant Republicans. It will fit neatly into the Obama zeitgeist...
...unusual. "They need to react rapidly before it becomes established in the population, after which time it will become very difficult and costly to eradicate," said a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization official who asked not to be named. Part of the reason the disease is complicated to control is its long latency. Rabies symptoms manifest within two to three weeks if a person has been bitten on the face, or as late as 12 months if the bite is on the leg. Generally, if an infected person is not vaccinated immediately, there is little chance of survival...