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...With fuel prices likely to remain high and awareness of the environment growing globally, small, efficient cars are beginning to gain traction not just in Japan but all over the world. For example, DaimlerChrysler plans next year to begin selling its two-passenger Smart mini in the SUV-loving U.S. At the same time, most of the world's major automakers expect to produce low-cost subcompact cars for growing middle classes in China, India and other developing countries. Yet the market for kei is likely to remain largely restricted to Japan. That's partly because profit margins...
...says he was surprised to discover this bleakness in his stories: "I had no idea that there was so much despair in them. I'd never consciously thought about what I was writing until the collection was put together. I'm not a despairing person. I always want to begin with some sort of dilemma, or problem, and for the characters to come to some sort of resolution, or some sort of understanding." Indeed, there are glimmers of hope and redemption in his snapshots of lives lived "elsewhere." While there is sadness and uncertainty, there is also a good deal...
...register a copyright, be it for a Pulitzer prizewinning novel or a ninth-grader's meanderings on Animal Farm, and the penalty per copyright violation can be as much as $150,000. So if the McLean High School students prevail with their copyrighted essays--a trial will probably begin this fall--ambulance- chasing lawyers will start tailing school buses, and Turnitin may have to close up shop...
...physical barrier to separate feuding sects—a strategy that has failed throughout history—suggests that we have exhausted all reasonable solutions. Even if Congress and the White House cannot agree on a timetable for withdrawal or the necessity for such a timetable, President Bush must begin scaling back the numbers of American troops in Iraq—without clear signs of improvement, the cost of staying in the country in American lives simply isn’t worth it. If this president refuses to withdraw on his own terms, Congress will have no choice...
...Your country and your President are in dire need of an attorney who will do the tough job of providing independent counsel,” the letter says. It calls on Gonzales to “relent from this reckless path, and begin to restore respect for the rule of law we all learned to love many years...