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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...additional 1.5 million vehicles a year by 2006, bringing annual production to 8.5 million vehicles. That's a lot of metal to move at a profit, and it's only getting tougher. Rising commodity and energy prices are increasing manufacturing costs. And looming interest-rate hikes, the bane of new-car sales, may make even today's volume tough to sustain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Dude on the Road | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...know that our excitement spelled horror for the Boston Police Department (BPD). It was Harvard-Yale—the day of The Game. And it was the catalyst for a new “crack-down” on drinking, a reinvigoration of the puritanical principles that are the bane of every student’s existence...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Operation Don’t-Whiz-on-the-Field | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

Which is why I'm so enjoying the Bush Administration's recent heartburn over its new regulations on the emission of mercury, a nasty neurotoxin that in recent years has become the bane of pregnant women because of its accumulation in popular fish like tuna. As with lead, adults can process an impressive amount of mercury before major damage is done. Not so fetuses. In 2004 the Federal Government warned pregnant women against eating more than 6 oz. of albacore tuna a week. Unfortunately, that warning came a few months after the birth of my first child--which meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Mothers on Patrol | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

Friday, March 18. Harvard Book Store presents Mary Joe Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins discussing Taking Faith Seriously. 3 p.m. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAPPENING | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...first fought against recipes that called for the culinary ease of prepackaged powdered soup and then the dietary benefits of defatted cheese. "Fake food--I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut--is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking," she said. "I just hate health food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living Through Better Cooking | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

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