Brookings researchers warn of more flight delays

Lengthy airline delays are twice as common now as in 1990 and will get worse as the economy recovers, according to a Brookings Institution report released Thursday.

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Swine flu school closings could cost billions

Closing schools and day care centers because of swine flu could cost between $10 billion and $47 billion, a report by the Brookings Institution think tank found.

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World Bank study finds major Africa improvements

Several African nations are among those that have made great improvements in how their people are governed, with Botswana even on a par with many more-developed Western nations, the World Bank and the Brookings Institution said in a report released Monday.

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Rahm Emanuel to The New York Times, 11/10/2009: "Let's be honest. The goal isn't to see whether I can pass this [health care reform] through the executive board of the Brookings Institution.

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The Obama administration's positive tone following its first diplomatic encounter with Iran covers a deep and growing gloom in Washington and European capitals.

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Panelists explored ways of improving the effectiveness of student financial aid and the possibility of meeting President Obama's goal of of having the world's highest rate of college graduates by 2020.

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"We don't intend to stumble into the next administration," Obama said this week. "We are going to hit the ground running. We're going to have clear plans of action."

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The United States' war on drugs has failed and will continue to do so as long as it emphasizes law enforcement and neglects the problem of consumption, a Washington think tank says in a report co-chaired by a former president of Mexico.

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There's no doubt that the financial crisis, job insecurity, and fundamental economic worries are the No. 1 issue in Tuesday's vote. But that raises a critical question: If Barack Obama is elected, will he have an antiwar mandate? The answer isn't clear.

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In order to figure out how to combat the current economic crisis, it is important to understand what kind of crisis we are dealing with. The conventional wisdom is that we are dealing with a housing crisis (falling housing prices) magnified by excessive leverage.

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While there remain many detractors who insist that Biden's proposal is unworkable, a growing number of them assert that a rough approximation of what Biden envisioned - a decentralization of power - appears to be taking shape anyway.

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A young, fresh-faced candidate, with a feisty, savvy wife, takes the political world by storm.

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Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, even in Wall Street's rarefied realms.

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I SPENT much of last week talking to an extraordinary Indian about his country's culture, economics and future.

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Excerpts: The stimulus plan Congress approved this month may provide less of a jolt to the U.S. economy than intended, as most Americans plan to save rather than spend their tax rebates, a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times survey shows.

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The poor could have a harder time moving up the income ladder as the higher education gap widens, a report said.

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If we are to believe the Hillary Clinton campaign line, the main attribute which qualifies her above all others is that, "She is ready to lead on day one."

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In case you haven't noticed, things aren't going terribly well on the worldwide financial markets. President Bush isn't insensitive to that fact—that's why, a few days ago his administration announced the rough outlines of an economic stimulus plan.

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That fire in Vice President Cheney's digs in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Wednesday naturally has everyone in Washington speculating about its origin.

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Nearly half of African Americans born to middle-income parents in the late 1960s plunged into poverty or near-poverty as adults, according to a new study — a perplexing finding that analysts say highlights the fragile nature of middle-class life for many African Americans

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The Moyock, N.C., company, which was involved in a September shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqis dead, is one of five military contractors competing for as much as $15 billion over five years to help fight a narcotics trade that the government says finances terrorist groups.

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Very few citizens have a clear idea of any quantitative measures of how the war is "actually" going.

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History is full of momentous events and many of those have a huge impact on the way that US Presidents behave.

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Unfortunately, at the moment the political paralysis seems to be a more powerful force than the military momentum, and progress in security is unsustainable without sectarian compromise among Iraq's Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shiites.

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In recent years, redistricting by state legislatures has created an extraordinarily high number of "safe" congressional districts, in which the incumbent is highly likely to gain reelection.

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The big story in Washington is the burst of bipartisanship in the passing of legislation by Congress to expand the National Security Agency's wiretap powers.

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An essential reference of data about the war, compiled by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, from Brookings Inst., GAO, Reuters, CNN, Defense Dept. and other sources...A few highlights given below.

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