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...sort by age, gender, type of car, smoking or smoke-free travel and even music preferences. At Carpoolworld.com you enter your destination, and the site spits out a list of registered users headed your way. Ridester.com one of the fastest-growing sites, with 11,000 unique users since August, will send you a text message when a potential match arises. It will also hit you with a $2 surcharge for each transaction and take 9.5% of the driver...
...Pope responded to the question of whether Islam was a "religion of peace"--as George W. Bush, among others, has always stressed-- by saying, "Certainly there are also elements that can favor peace." When he met with moderate German Muslims in the city of Cologne that August, Benedict delivered a fairly blunt warning that "those who instigate and plan these attacks evidently wish to poison our relations." In Rome, he removed Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, a relatively dovish Islam expert, as head of the Vatican's office on interreligious dialogue and replaced an ongoing study of Christian violence during the Crusades...
...weakened by competition and can no longer use cutthroat pricing to scare off newer, low-fare airlines like AirTran, Frontier and JetBlue. In fact, low-cost carriers (LCCs) now account for 25% of all airline traffic, up from 10% five years ago, which has helped drive down fares. Last August, low-cost king Southwest Airlines carried more passengers than any other U.S. airline, the first time an LCC has claimed the top spot...
Correction Appended: November 21, 2006 Burning batteries are two words that Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer would never like to hear again. Before reports surfaced in August that Sony-made lithium-ion batteries had an occasional tendency to fry Apple, Dell and other laptops, the boss of the sprawling Japanese media conglomerate was having a great year. For four quarters, Sony had beaten financial expectations (though it wasn't always profitable). The firm was leaner, following more than 10,000 job cuts and the closure of nine factories. The consumer-electronics division was back in the black. And the movie...
...August, a large dhow originating in Iran and carrying arms, medical supplies and food arrived at a Mogadishu seaport. Included in the shipment were 80 man-portable surface-to-air missiles and launchers. The U.N. also charges that "at the time of writing of this report, there were two Iranians in Dhusa Mareb engaged on matters linked to the exploration of uranium in exchange for arms to the ICU." In separate letters written to the U.N., Syria and Iran denied having any involvement...