FURTHERMORE . . . .

NY Post - The city's first African-American mayor blasted the country's first black president for leaving Bill Thompson in the dust in the mayor's race this year. "The president should've done more. He found time to go to Virginia, he found time to go to New Jersey and he should've been here," former Mayor David Dinkins, who was in office from 1990 through 1993. First, Obama's spokesman told the press on a Friday afternoon that he would support Thompson, who sought to be the city's second black mayor, because Thompson and he are both are both Democrats. The spokesman went on to praise Bloomberg. Obama then gave Thompson a shout-out when he was in the city last month, saying, "Our great city comptroller, our candidate for mayor, my friend Billy Thompson is in the house." He gave similar shout-outs to the Democratic candidates for public advocate and comptroller. The president never campaigned with Thompson, nor did he host any fundraisers for him.

Pew Center - According to a nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends project, nearly four-in-ten adults who are working past the median retirement age of 62 say they have delayed their retirement because of the recession; among workers ages 50 to 61, fully 63% say they might have to push back their expected retirement date because of current economic conditions. These survey findings are consistent with a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data that show that the labor force participation rate of older adults, which declined from 1950 until the middle of the 1980s, has been rising ever since. This trend has accelerated during this decade, especially in the current recession. At the other end of the age spectrum, census data show that in the current decade, a rising share of Americans ages 16 to 24 are in school and a declining share are in the labor force -- 57% today versus 66% in 2000.

Physorg - A spinoff company from Arizona State University plans to build a new battery with an energy density 11 times greater than that of lithium-ion batteries for just one-third the cost. With a $5.13 million research grant from the US Department of Energy awarded last week, Fluidic Energy hopes to turn its ultra-dense energy storage technology into a reality. . . The key to the new battery is that it uses ionic liquids as its electrolyte, which could help it overcome some significant problems faced by previous metal-air batteries. In the past, metal-air batteries have usually used water-based electrolytes, but due to water evaporation, the batteries tended to fail prematurely.

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