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Think you pay too much for cell phone service? President Obama’s reelection campaign spent $143,862 last year just on text messages. Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee — even without a Republican nominee in place yet — spent twice as much money as all the GOP candidates combined in 2011. It is all part of the president’s expanding effort to mobilize supporters and start building the massive infrastructure for a successful reelection campaign. Read full article > >

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Scotland is set to benefit from a digital revolution right across the country, Infrastructure Secretary Alex Neil predicts.

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KEENE, N.H. This is not, in all likelihood, Jon Huntsman’s break-out moment . Even if the former Utah governor manages to exceed expectations — which would amount to coming in second to Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary — his path ahead is unclear. Huntsman has invested months and months of slogging from house party to diner to town hall meeting in this state, but he has little in the way of infrastructure to propel him in South Carolina and beyond. More PostOpinions Cohen: Romney’s aw-shucks rhetoric Gerson: Mitt the improbable Milbank: Romney’s money problem Read full article > >

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Jon Huntsman, chameleon on the stump

We need to take parking lots more seriously, architecturally, and to think of them as public spaces, as part of the infrastructure of our streets and sidewalks.

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Arts & Leisure: Taking Parking Lots Seriously, as Public Spaces

For 40 years, art enthusiasts admired a 7-foot-tall modern bronze sculpture in a leafy park in south London close to a boating lake. But it seems others had their eyes on it, too. “ Two Forms (Divided Circle) ,” by the well-known British sculptor Barbara Hepworth , was stolen last week, and the widespread speculation here is that it will be melted down for cash. Read full article > >

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Metal theft ravages Britain’s infrastructure

A blueprint for the future of transport around Wales is expected to be published, against a backdrop of a 40% cut in infrastructure spending.

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Transport strategy to be unveiled

NEW DELHI — India’s government on Wednesday suspended its plans to throw open its huge retail sector to foreign companies such as Wal-Mart in a decision seen as a major capitulation to political opponents that further weakens the administration. The initial decision last month to allow foreign companies to own 51 percent of supermarkets in major cities and 100 percent of single-brand stores was hailed by the business community as a long overdue reform. The government and some economists said foreign retailers would bring better prices for farmers and lower prices for consumers by cutting out middlemen and upgrading the country’s infrastructure. Read full article > >

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The Welsh government is waiting to learn if its budget will be topped up by UK government plans to invest in infrastructure as Chancellor George Osborne lays out his economic proposals.

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Ministers hope for spending boost

The government is set to announce a major drive to boost investment in large infrastructure projects.

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David Cameron promises an “all-out mission” to kick-start infrastructure projects and revive the economy.

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SAO PAULO — It’s called the Big Worm — a 2.2 mile-long elevated highway that wiggles through the center of South America’s largest city , curving feet from bedroom windows of once-elegant art deco buildings and carrying 80,000 noisy cars through a wide swath of cityscape each day. Urban planners say that the 40-year-old concrete monster has no place in Sao Paulo and that flattening it should be on the city’s to-do list if this sprawling metropolis is to modernize. This city, Brazil’s economic heart, has to revamp the kind of out-of-date infrastructure embodied by the Worm, those planners say, if Brazil is to maintain the strong growth that has transformed the economy into one of the world’s most vibrant. Read full article > >

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Sao Paulo’s ‘Big Worm,’ an elevated highway, must go, urban planners say

SAO PAULO — It’s called the Big Worm — a 2.2 mile-long elevated highway that wiggles through the center of South America’s largest city , curving feet from bedroom windows of once-elegant art deco buildings and carrying 80,000 noisy cars through a wide swath of cityscape each day. Urban planners say that the 40-year-old concrete monster has no place in Sao Paulo and that flattening it should be on the city’s to-do list if this sprawling metropolis is to modernize. This city, Brazil’s economic heart, has to revamp the kind of out-of-date infrastructure embodied by the Worm, those planners say, if Brazil is to maintain the strong growth that has transformed the economy into one of the world’s most vibrant. Read full article > >

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ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — President Obama plans to make a major speech in early September laying out new proposals for job creation and taming the federal debt, according to the White House. Obama is expected to make fresh proposals, possibly including tax cuts and new infrastructure spending, to spur hiring. The president will also lay out a plan to trim far more from the federal debt than the $1.5 trillion target of a congressional “supercommittee” that is supposed to issue a proposal for Congress by Thanksgiving, the White House said. The plan is likely to include proposals for an overhaul of the tax code and entitlements. Read full article > >

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