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...Chris Richter, senior research analyst for CLSA, a Hong Kong-based brokerage house, says smaller players are starting to build electric cars because the playing field is fairly level. EVs are not as complicated to manufacture as hybrids, and the market is in its infancy. Toyota, for all its success with the Prius, has said it could launch EVs in the U.S. by 2012, but has not announced plans to introduce them in Japan. "If you're third or fourth, you'll never beat Toyota or Honda head on," says Richter. "But you can beat them if you change...
...votes as Labour's, saw its support climb by only 1 point. Even the BNP, whose two northern English seats included one for Nick Griffin, the party's pugnacious leader, grew its share of polling by just 1.3 points. Voters were desperate to "kick us in the shins," said Chris Bryant, Labour's deputy leader of the House of Commons, "if not somewhere a little further north of that...
...This includes the nice ones, wounded sparrows like the Garnetts, Tom (Chris Messina) and Munch (Melanie Lynskey). Munch can't have kids, so they adopted; this is presented as the ultimate curse. Burt's brother Courtney (Paul Schneider) dearly loves his young daughter, but thinks she will be forever stigmatized because his wife has walked out. Apparently only traditional nuclear families can be happy. Indeed, the one successful brood is the one at the movie's center; they are all the things their friends aren't, and as sensitive as the acoustic guitar sound track mandatory in U.S. indie films...
...covered by a government-run plan similar to Medicare. To its opponents - and some of its more ardent supporters - the public plan looks like the first step toward a single-payer system like Canada's or Britain's. "Too many people are reacting like Pavlov's dog," says Senator Chris Dodd, the ranking Democrat who has been filling in on the Health Committee for the ailing Ted Kennedy. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...every reality producer knows, you can never tell exactly what a show will be like before it's filmed. "Whatever comes of the edit bay will set the tone," says Scott Sternberg, an independent producer who has worked on such reality shows as The Chris Isaak Hour, Shootout and The Academy. "If it's produced right, it could be great. Or it could be a train wreck...