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3:00 am
Tue February 28, 2012

Ford's High-Tech Solutions May Ease Gridlock

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By Annie Baxter

Ford is betting technology can help relieve traffic congestion around the world. In a speech Monday, Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. said the company is investing in systems that will bypass traffic jams, locate parking spots and communicate with other vehicles to avoid accidents.

It's All Politics
12:46 am
Tue February 28, 2012

Wyoming's Caucus Process: Drawn Out And Confusing

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Republicans in Wyoming pick delegates for the national convention in a process that stretches from early February to mid-April. Besides being time consuming, the process is also hard to understand.

In Wyoming, precinct caucuses are the first round of the political playoffs. Republicans from throughout the state meet in county caucuses to discuss issues, suggest platform ideas and decide who to endorse.

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Opinion
11:01 pm
Mon February 27, 2012

The New Indian Pariahs: Vegetarians

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An Indian butcher chops meat at a mutton market in Mumbai. Indians are consuming more meat than ever before, despite a tradition of vegetarianism.
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India has been home to vegetarians for centuries. Many Hindus and most Buddhists do not eat meat, but commentator Sandip Roy says in today's India, meat is what's for dinner.

When my friend Lakshmi, a lifelong vegetarian, went to America as a student more than 20 years ago she knew she was in for a hard time. Vegetarian dorm food meant a lot of cheese pizza, french fries, pasta and if she was lucky, grilled vegetables.

After 10 years in San Francisco's vegetarian mecca, when she returned to live in India a few years ago, she had an unexpected identity crisis.

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Law
11:01 pm
Mon February 27, 2012

Human Rights Victims Seek Remedy At High Court

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Charles Wiwa fled Nigeria in 1996 following a crackdown on protests against Shell's oil operations in the Niger Delta. Now a resident of Chicago, Wiwa and other natives of the oil-rich Ogoni region are suing Shell for human rights violations.
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Human rights are front and center at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in two cases testing how American law intersects with international law. At issue in both cases is whether foreign nationals in the United States can sue corporations or other entities in U.S. courts for alleged violations of human rights.

The case that has corporate teeth chattering is a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell Oil, which is accused of aiding and abetting the Nigerian government in committing atrocities in the 1990s.

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Mitt Romney
11:01 pm
Mon February 27, 2012

Michigan Primary A Test Of Romney's Family Legacy

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A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a vintage campaign poster of Romney's father, George Romney, in Albion, Mich.
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George Romney holds infant Willard "Mitt" Romney, the youngest of his four children, in this 1947 family photo.
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Mitt with his father in their Detroit home in 1957, when George Romney was CEO of American Motors Corp.
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A young Mitt sits behind the wheel of his father's Rambler.
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Flanked by his wife, Lenore, and son Mitt, George Romney announces his run for governor of Michigan at a news conference in 1962.
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A 14-year-old Mitt hugs his father after George Romney announces his candidacy for governor on Feb. 10, 1962.
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George Romney with his two sons, Mitt (left) and Scott, in an undated photo from their home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
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George Romney, then the governor of Michigan, walks with family members to the World's Fair in New York in May 1964. Mitt is at far left.
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George and Mitt Romney look out over the grounds of the World's Fair in 1964. The World's Fair included exhibits from several automobile companies.
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The Romney family in their Bloomfield Hills, Mich., home, on Jan. 1, 1968. Mitt is standing in back.
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George and Lenore Romney with Mitt and his then-fiancée, Ann Davies, outside their Washington hotel on Jan. 19, 1969, a day before Richard Nixon's inauguration.
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Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, look up at a portrait of his late father at the Capitol rotunda in Lansing, Mich., in 2008.
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Mitt Romney holds a poster of his father, given to him at a campaign rally in Spartanburg, S.C., in January.
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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 9:59 am

Michigan and Arizona hold presidential primaries Tuesday, and in Michigan, where Mitt Romney was born, the race has been as hard-fought as anywhere in the country.

For Romney, the campaign there has been personal. He often evokes the Michigan of his youth, when his father, George, ran American Motors and went on to become a very popular three-term governor.

But does that family legacy mean anything today?

If you were to go to a Romney event in Detroit or Kalamazoo or Traverse City, you'd be almost guaranteed to hear some Romney family history.

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