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...change our ways. It's a true gift to the planet from the present economic circumstances. And rest assured, prices are not likely to drop. How could they, since worldwide discovery of oil peaked in 1964? In China and India, hundreds of millions of households dream of getting a car or even two. Let's hope the exponential rise of oil prices will guide us all toward greener aspirations that will encourage the production of a less polluting alternative to cars. Otherwise one planet will not be enough. Nicolas Morin, PARIS...
...start of any Karoo tour is the south coast. Hire a good car, check the spare tire (roads are good but service stations can be hours apart), and head inland. Once you breach the mountains that line the coastline - the Outeniqua, the Baviaanskloofbeit or the Swartrugreng - you're in the Karoo. Roads run straight to the horizon, the sky is cloudless and the mountains are a sequence of blues and ambers...
...Kabul provides jobs, employing only the disabled. "We discriminate 100% here," says Alberto Cairo, an effusive Italian who heads the orthopedic program. "If you want a job here, cut off your leg." He pauses to pet the center's resident collie, which limps because it was hit by a car. "Actually, don't do that. We don't have enough jobs as it is." Cairo nods at a young man serving tea with a prosthetic right hook. He also wears a prosthetic left foot. "That's not a landmine injury," Cairo says. The appendages were cut off by the Taliban...
...speculation raged over why he suddenly materialized, Darwin's family expressed elation that he was alive at all. "It's very good news," Darwin's 90-year old father, Ronald, told TIME. The elderly Darwin has said his son was hit by a car as a child, and suggested he may have incurred amnesia from the ensuing head injury. Darwin's own adult sons told the BBC that when they met their father this week, he told them that he couldn't recall anything since June...
...Staff writer Noah S. Bloom can be reached at nsbloom@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Anna L. Tong can be reached at tong@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The Nov. 30 news article "Student Hit By Car Near Fogg" incorrectly stated that a Dunster House resident was hit by a car turning left onto Mount Auburn Street from DeWolfe Street. In fact, the car was turning onto Mount Auburn Street from Bow Street...