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They were crammed into rickety old cars, vans and pickup trucks - hundreds of terrified Palestinians, some sobbing with terror and relief, streaming out of the devastated refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared 14 kilometers north of the Lebanese town of Tripoli. White sheets fluttered from car windows, trailing away from the ugly ruins of war. "It stinks of bodies under the rubble. There are many dead," said Mouein Safadi, 35, trembling with fatigue and emotion as he reached the first Lebanese army position nearly 200 meters from the edge of the camp. "There are tens of wounded, but nobody...
...linked to a bank robbery and were also alleged members of Fatah al-Islam. In the first day's intense gun battles on the streets of Tripoli and in the camp, some 50 people died. The violence spread south to the capital; a 10-kg bomb exploded in a car park in the Ashrafieh district of east Beirut, killing one woman and wounding 12 other people. The next day, another bomb rocked an affluent shopping district in a Sunni Muslim part of Beirut. The fighting quickly became the worst incident of internal violence in Lebanon since its long and bitter...
...when it comes to cars, actions don't necessarily follow. Even if prices keep rising, 2 out of 3 drivers say they will never switch to buses. It can now cost $130 to fill the tank of an SUV, yet SUV sales have shot up 25% over the past year. In 2000, when gas cost $2 a gal., fuel efficiency ranked 29th on the list of features car buyers cared about. With gasoline prices higher than ever before, that priority has climbed all the way up to ... 22nd place...
...float congestion-pricing schemes and tell taxi drivers they have to switch to hybrids by 2012, but to the general public, this is about time and love, not money and reason. We may fear global warming, replace our lightbulbs, recycle our plastics. But in America a man's car is still his castle, and you don't pick a castle for its energy efficiency...
...Ticketmaster's biggest customers became, in effect, its biggest competitor. Major League Baseball bought Tickets.com pumping money into the fledgling site, which is now the second largest ticketing retailer, selling about $1 billion worth annually. "Given the importance of online ticketing, we thought we should drive the car from the front seat rather than the back," says Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com The league doesn't dictate how teams sell their tickets. That business, for now, is divided fairly evenly among Ticketmaster, Tickets.com and Paciolan, a ticketing software firm based in Irvine, Calif. But if the league consolidates its ticketing...