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Sales results from August are raising doubts about Chrysler Group LLC's post-bankruptcy comeback and indicate that the ailing automaker is in for an agonizing wait of several months before aid from its new Italian partner, Fiat, can finally make a difference...
...Financial Aid Office will still assist eligible students with the tutoring cost, both at the $7 rate for the first 10 hours and at the $14 rate thereafter...
...does not expect the number of tutoring requests to decrease, in part due to the reimbursements from the Financial Aid Office...
Slurry is dyed bright red to aid in visibility and help tanker pilots drop a seamless line of retardant. "Basically, they're trying to box in the fire," says Janet Upton of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), which is helping to battle the giant Station fire near Los Angeles. Another advantage of slurry is that unlike water, fertilizer doesn't evaporate. (It offers still another bonus for farmers, who have requested that unused slurry be dropped onto their fields as aircraft make their way home.) (Read a 1977 essay: "What Ever Happened to California...
...seen the highest level of civilian deaths since the Taliban was routed out of power in 2002. As uncertainty surrounds the final outcome of the presidential vote, fraught with low turnout and mounting accusations of election fraud, Afghan civilians are at a greater risk than ever of violent attacks, aid officials warn. "With the outcome of voting in Afghanistan unclear, the danger and insecurity facing millions of Afghans continues and in fact is higher now than ever," says Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific director. "Antigovernment groups, including the Taliban, have demonstrated a systematic contempt for the safety...