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...would add about 35,000 to the sale price of every new car. Among other things, the rules require that carmakers minimize the amount of chemicals used in the manufacture of their autos and dictate that new cars be 95% recyclable. Ford also complained that some directives cancel each other out - explaining that pedestrian safety rules will add weight to cars, while fuel efficiency directives anticipate lighter cars. Sighed a Ford spokesman: "We're piggy in the middle." But - to mix animal metaphors - is Ford crying wolf? "Think of the discussions in the late '80s about how the cost...
...even a fraction of what we found in mice relates to human biology, then we are cautiously optimistic that there may be a new way to think about reversing obesity," says Renata Pasqualini of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Promising research to be sure, but don't cancel your gym membership yet. --By David Bjerklie
...citizenship laws. Under the proposed changes, immigrants will have to wait five years instead of three before becoming citizens. Marrying a Kiwi won't bring that day forward; having a baby in New Zealand won't necessarily make it a citizen; and the government will be able to cancel the passports of people deemed security risks. A review of immigration law is also...
...Israeli Prime Minister needs U.S. support for his plan, partly to sell it to hard-liners in his Likud Party, and he played his cards shrewdly. He threatened to cancel his trip to Washington if Bush's statement didn't explicitly support his stand on the refugee issue. Late on April 11, his top negotiator, Dov Weissglass, called Secretary of State Colin Powell and said negotiations had reached an impasse. Weissglass said Sharon, due to leave for Washington within hours, would cancel his trip if the matter wasn't resolved. "I can't solve the language right now," Powell told...
...English department’s lamest TF will cancel section for the second time in as many weeks, reviving speculation that last week’s no-show was affected by allegations that that kid who always does the reading doesn’t believe in the Holocaust...