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...bills, she offered to pay cash up front. The stakes are high. According to the Federal Trade Commission, when a thief opens new accounts in a victim's name (easy to do with a SSN), it takes the victim an average of 60 hours and $1,180 to clean up the mess...
When the government of Guangdong province in southern China launched a campaign in 2002 to clean up the Pearl River, officials memorably promised that within three years the water would be "neither black nor stinking," and completely clean by the end of the decade. China's environmental regulators have been inching towards those goals: last month, after a government campaign called Operation Green Sword cracked down on more than 80 companies that were allegedly polluting the waterways around Guangzhou, provincial authorities triumphantly declared the Pearl River safe for swimming...
...left buried in the earth. But no one disputes that record pump prices, geopolitics and global warming are taking the pleasure out of driving. The future of cars will definitely depend on alternatives to the traditional combustion engine, such as fuel cells that burn hydrogen and emit clean water exhaust. But until we get there, a variety of transitional technologies will try to squeeze as much efficiency as possible out of traditional engines. All major manufacturers are now rolling out hybrid cars that combine electric or alternative-fuel-burning engines with standard gas and diesel engines. Loremo believes that...
BEIJING—Three objects sit on my desk: a Chinese-English dictionary, a lamp, and my computer. For anyone who knows me, this is an anomaly in the extreme. I have an innate incapability to have a clean desk; one memorable winter, I lost my ID twice under the stacks of papers and books that inevitably cover it by mid-semester. Yet it’s almost halfway through the summer semester here at Beijing Language and Culture University, and my tabletop remains freakishly clean. Ostensibly, my monkish existence has a single purpose: learn Mandarin. To this...
...catch most workers who use drugs. The vast majority undergo examinations only when they apply for a job, and they can pass by abstaining from drugs for a reasonable period before the test - or by using a variety of masking agents or devices that make their urine seem clean...