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...judicious spending cuts, farsighted policy fixes and a willingness to embrace the opportunities presented by a changing world. By contrast, the French debate remains stuck in a time warp. Even that perennial, the 35-hour week, is now back on the agenda; Royal and her Socialist Party challengers spent a part of their first televised debate last month discussing whether those hours should be extended to include everyone. It's time for France to have a real debate about the real issues, in order to prepare the ground for a new President. It's time for the candidates to come...
...which John put on his sweatshirt before going out for a jog, and another group read a story in which John took off his sweatshirt before heading out. Two sentences later, up popped a reference to the sweatshirt. People who had read about John taking off his sweatshirt spent more time over this new bit of information. Mentally, they had left the sweatshirt behind. In other words, when we hear a story, we create in our minds a simulation of what's happening. Do you walk down the street to Subway just because Jared did? No. But hearing his story...
...fight for the matron vote can get rough. Senator Jim Talent, the Missouri incumbent who faces a hard contest against state auditor Claire McCaskill, has spent heavily on ads accusing her of failing to investigate abusive nursing homes. And last week in Virginia, Republicans spent more than $1 million on TV ads attacking challenger James Webb for, among other things, a 1979 article opposing women in combat and his novels, whose raunchy sex scenes incumbent George Allen called "demeaning to women." This close to Election Day, there are still plenty of votes to scrap for: a recent Missouri poll found...
...Chemical has spent billions of dollars defending lawsuits derived from its production of dioxin, Agent Orange and other toxic substances. Now CEO Andrew Liveris is determined to turn the $46 billion conglomerate into a pre-eminent eco-friendly operation. TIME's WENDY COLE spoke with Liveris, 52, about going green, how the U.S.'s civil-justice system is dysfunctional and why he's not ready to buy a hybrid...
...Still Hostettler, who has insisted that he is running to win, has had a lot of help from the national Republican Party, which has spent more than $1 million in television airtime, allowing the congressman to wait until the past couple weeks before airing his own ads. Last weekend, he introduced a TV spot that waded into a thorny issue revived by this week's New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in favor of equal rights for same-sex couples. In a voice that sounds like Clint Eastwood, a narrator claims a vote for Ellsworth will mean a vote for Nancy...