American Competitiveness: Forfeit or Win?
On September 9, President Obama named Ron Bloom, a veteran of Wall Street and the labor movement, to be the new special adviser on manufacturing. As manufacturing represents an 11 percent share of the GDP, down from 30 percent in the 1950s, presumably the hope is that a Manufacturing Czar will be able to reverse this trend.
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Jimmy Carter's solar panel makes it back to Washington, but not back onto the White House
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had 32 panels installed atop the White House to capture the sun's heat. Thirty-odd years later, at least one of the panels still works, warming up in the Northeastern sunlight of Boston and sending steam heat out of a spigot on September 8, en route down the east coast from its temporary home at Unity College in Maine. By September 10, that panel had made it back …
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Solar panels on the White House? Not on Obama's watch.
Environmentalist Bill McKibben and a troupe of college students were disappointed Friday when the Obama administration officials refused to accept a solar panel for use on the White House roof.
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David Beckham and Victoria Beckham put house up for sale and are set to quit UK
DAVID and Victoria ­Beckham have put ­Beckingham Palace up for sale as they prepare to quit Britain and make ­America their ­permanent home.
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The ageing guardians of Kylemore look to the future
A little slice of heaven in western Ireland is down to the devotion of a group of ageing nuns — and modern thinking. Brad Thompson reports.
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