Word: breaking
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...price of gas remains volatile, it's far from certain that Americans will buy the more efficient cars and trucks the new standards will require automakers to produce. In the long run, though, a gas tax that puts a floor on fuel prices may be the only way to break America's SUV addiction. But Obama has said he's not interested. "You need a price signal. Regulations alone won't do it," says Lester Lave, director of the Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative...
...Kuwait Women on Top Four liberal-leaning female candidates were elected to Kuwait's 50-seat parliament on May 16, becoming the first to break through the country's political glass ceiling since women were given the rights to vote and run for office in 2005. Their victories were probably aided by voter frustration with the political turmoil and religious extremism of recent parliaments...
...walking around looking for new extracurricular activities and found one for the rest of my life, I guess you could say,” Downer said. Girlfriend became fiancée while the two were on vacation with Owings’ family in Jamaica this past Christmas break, after the couple had been together for over two years. Downer and Owings had just watched the Dallas Cowboys lose a game and a playoff berth. “I started to cry because it was really, really sad for Josh that his team had lost and I knew it would have...
...subject during his senior year. After a series of encounters in which Aljawhary’s family and friends asked Jou to answer a “list of questions” in order to gauge his potential as a husband, Jou proposed officially over last Thanksgiving break. In a symbolic acknowledgment of Aljawhary’s Egyptian background, Jou, whose parents are Iranian, wrote and pronounced the proposal in Arabic. While the moment may have been awkward for everyone involved, Jou noted playfully that “she is still more embarrassed than...
Government and private Web networks in the U.S. have emerged as frequent targets for online scofflaws. The Pentagon reported some 360 million attempts to break into its networks last year, up from just 6 million in 2006. That includes a reportedly successful attempt to hack into the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project and copy data about the aircraft's design and electronics systems. The espionage is believed to have originated in China. Experts say computer criminals in China and Russia have also infiltrated America's electrical grid, covertly installing software to potentially damage it at any time (the governments...