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...other brands, Cailler and KitKat, is not releasing figures until the end of April, company chairman Peter Brabeck recently told Swiss newsmagazine Weltwoche that even amid a slacking consumer goods sector, chocolate sales are on the rise. "Now that people don't have a new television or a new car," he noted, "they eat a bit more chocolate...
...Institute in Karnal in northern India, "while livestock plays a crucial role in the economy, global warming is becoming a huge worry. We're trying to find indigenous solutions, because our realities are very different from the West." (See 10 things you should know about the world's cheapest car, India's Nano...
...from our current “posthumanity”—a state of being ruled too much by reason and not enough by human vigor. We are posthumans because we live through technology, because we create virtual avatars, because “the city, the house, the car, the iPhone, the laptop, the iPod, the pillbox, the nonflesh” have become alienated vehicles for ourselves. The fear of posthumanity may seem a little exaggerated (haven’t humans always interacted, in some way, with the tools of their creation?), but for Codrescu it carries more serious...
...Some aspects of China's glimmers of economic turnaround do seem as though they might offer hope to the country's trading partners. Take car sales, which rose in March for the third straight month, once again making China the largest market for automobiles in the world, ahead of the U.S. Those statistics, you'd think, would bring a smile to the faces of executives at beleaguered American carmaker GM, whose success in China in recent years has been about the only bright spot in its funereal performance...
...Columbia economic professor Nouriel Roubini pointed out in a recent report written for private clients, car sales in China have been "artificially boosted on a temporary basis by incentives" and so are unlikely to sustain their rise. Similarly, a spike in purchases of white goods in China's countryside was largely caused by discount vouchers supplied to consumers by Beijing, Roubini notes...