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...onto the grid in motor racing's blue-ribbon championship - Hamilton sits third in the drivers' standings. In the season opener in Australia last month, he steered his way into third place, the best finish by a rookie in more than a decade. Three weeks later, his McLaren car sped past - and then fended off - two frustrated Ferraris to take second place in Malaysia...
...prices in the headlines, corporations everywhere are rushing to show off their green credentials. But doing your bit to reduce carbon emissions is not the same as basing profits heavily on the sale of environmentally friendly products, a field that-niche-market successes such as the Toyota Prius hybrid car notwithstanding-has yet to reach critical mass...
...your advice to "Skip the Steak": Thank you for including switching to vegetarianism as an excellent way to help the environment. As you noted, it's even better than trading a standard car for a hybrid. Your "feel-good factor" was pretty high, and rightly so. We vegetarians know that we are helping save not only the environment but animals as well. Not to mention the health benefits...
...Lozano says he went around to the other side of the car, opened the door and saw that Sgrena had been shot in the left shoulder. He says he picked her up and laid her down on the wet ground whereupon the medic tore her shirt open to find the wound and dress it. After a blanket was then wrapped around her, he says, "I picked her up and put her in the back of my Humvee to take her to the 'cash' [Combat Support Hospital]." Speeding down the road, radio calls were put out to indicate that Lozano...
...hand as a signal that he was coming through. However, says Lozano, even if the soldiers had seen the waving arm and cell phone through the blinding headlights, they could not have known that the driver was friendly. Cell phones, he says, are often used as detonating devices for car bombs; the driver's signal would have been perceived as a threat. He says that cell phones were immediately confiscated from stopped cars for this reason. After she returned to Italy, Sgrena told the press that she was not allowed to use her cell phone, which she claims was evidence...