Hillary Rodham Clinton was just warming up the crowd in a cramped and muggy middle school gymnasium when she switched her pronouns.
"All the kitchen table issues that everybody talks to me about are ones that the next president can actually do something about," Clinton said Sunday night, "if he actually cares about it."
The word hung in the air only for a moment.
"More likely, if she cares about it," she added.
Was it a dramatic turn of phrase or a slip of the tongue? A way to spotlight gender on Mother's Day or a sign that the public doubts about her campaign have t...
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53 illegal immigrants held against will in Phoenix By (AP)
Fifty-three illegal immigrants found Sunday had been held against
their will in a fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more
money, authorities said.
The group of rescued immigrants included
two 13-year-old girls, three women and a mentally disabled man. The
rest were men, Department of Public Safety spokesman Harold Sanders
said.
Authorities began investigating Saturday after getting a
tip that immigrants were being held captive. Sanders said the smugglers
wanted an average of $2,500 for each person's release. Read More...
Startup shows off electric car planned for Israel By ARIEL SCHALIT (AP)
Israelis got a first demonstration Sunday of the electric car that
developers hope will revolutionize transportation in the country and
serve as a pilot for the rest of the world.
The silver car doing
circles in a Tel Aviv parking lot looked like a regular sedan _ except
it had no exhaust pipe and there was an electric socket where the mouth
of the gas tank should have been.
The Silicon Valley startup
Project Better Place hopes the fully electric prototype will be on
Israel's streets in large numbers beginning at the end of 2010.
Backers
of the project say the car will drastically reduce dependence on oil,
cut emissions and put Israel at the forefront of international efforts
to develop more environmentally friendly modes of transportation.
Israel's government endorsed the project in January, and a Danish
energy company also has joined as a partner. Read More...
