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...Sure, next year Ontario will receive a paltry $283 million (C$347 million) from Ottawa's wealth-sharing program, but why has the country's most populous and arguably wealthiest province turned beggar? It's been a punishing combination of a strengthening currency and a weakening manufacturing economy...
...disrespect to the Québécois, but the Bixi bike system has been in place in Paris for more than a year [Nov. 10]. I'm sure Parisians would be miffed to find that a city - Montreal - that appropriated its language is now getting credit for a bike system, known in Paris as Vélib', that has already met with much acclaim across Europe. Jonah Peppiatt, BOSTON...
...Also hitting the market are organic LEDs, or OLEDs, which are sure to render CRTs and LCDs obsolete once engineers overcome limits to size and longevity. They’re thinner and more energy efficient than LCDs and have a greater range of colors, including true black. The New York Times said Sony’s XEL-1 was like “looking out a window. With the glass missing.” OLEDs have much superior viewing angles, so that, unlike the typical laptop LCD screen, they won’t go dark when you turn your head...
...wisdom of pumping $10 billion annually into missile defense aren't going to get it from Barack Obama when he moves into the Oval Office. The Russians - along with the two men most likely to end up running the Pentagon for the President-elect - have already made sure of that. It's a bracing reminder of just how difficult it is to counter momentum once a big-league defense program achieves what aerodynamicists call "escape velocity" - that synergy of speed and gravity that lets a vehicle soar smoothly into the skies...
...autonomy proposal is being spearheaded by independent Shi'ite lawmaker and former governor of the province, Wael Abdel-Latif al-Fadel, and its timing - Iraqis are to vote in January in what promise to be hotly contested provincial elections - is sure to escalate political tensions. Al-Fadel, a 58-year-old former judge, has filed a petition with the Iraqi Electoral Commission containing 34,800 signatures, or 2% of the province's population (as required by law). After the Commission publicizes the official request through the media this week, its backers must garner an additional 139,200 signatures to meet...