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...Khosal says his father and a relative drove toward Jan's house in a police vehicle, accompanied by about 15 or 20 other men. "We parked the car about 500 m away, then walked toward the house." Sensing something amiss, "my father called to [Jan] that the Taliban were around the house," Khosal says. "Then there was shooting. My father got two bullets in the throat from the front side, and then the elders who were with us came and dragged him away." When Khosal picked up his relative, who had also been shot, "I was shot...
...Environmental Hero" Shai Agassi claims that electric cars produce no carbon emissions. But the electricity to run such a car must come from somewhere. Unless the car happens to be in a nation that draws its power entirely from renewable sources (sadly not the case anywhere), electric cars serve only to shift the location where fossil fuels are burned. Ronan Evans, Jerrabomberra, New South Wales...
...Diminishing Returns Your history item on Ford's model T indicated that when it was first introduced in 1908 its fuel efficiency was 13-21 miles per gallon [Oct. 6]. According to the website of the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, in 2006 the average U.S. passenger car got 22.4 miles to the gallon. It seems we haven't got very far in 100 years. Jeff DeVito, Bound Brook, New Jersey...
...diversified." And in Brussels, at the European Trade Union Institute, economist Andrew Watt draws some uncomfortable historical parallels. "There was some idea that the financial sector was immune," he says. "It's like pinning your hopes on anything, whether it's textiles in the north of England or the car industry around Birmingham. It expands for a while and then it takes a nasty knock...
...little like hearing gossip about people you don't know: some things simply don't register. Portions of the album, however, are breathtaking. The instruments--from synthesizers and the thereminesque Ondes Martenot to harps and an acrylic doodad of Albarn's co-invention that replicates the sound of car horns on busy Chinese roads--are lavish, but the exoticism is somehow kept in check. Typical of Albarn's various cultural adventures, he doesn't attempt to pass as a local; the details and pentatonic scale may come from Chinese folk music, but the playful melodies are rooted...