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By acting quickly, the US could cap greenhouse gas emissions with little sacrifice. Businesses and consumers must shift to using energy-efficient and pollution-reducing measures, suggests Marc Gunther for Fortune magazine, while alternative energy sources and innovation would also contribute to reductions. The strategy will work only if the society puts in a collective effort, according to the...

Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, argues that US foreign policy must be reformed if America’s international power is to be revitalized. Obama, who has pledged to withdraw US troops from Iraq, laments that the Iraq War damaged some international relationships that secured both US power and global stability in the post-World War II era. Now, he argues, the US must...

Mexico struggles to compete with low labor costs of Asian manufacturers, but has established a niche in manufacturing aerospace equipment because of location. Massive items that entail expensive transportation fees used to be manufactured in distant countries with highly skilled work forces, like Japan and Taiwan. But the Mexican government has invested in training programs for aerospace workers...