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...cheapest car, on March 23. The 33-h.p. (25 kw) Nano aims to make automotive transportation affordable in a country where a car is beyond most people's budgets. While environmentalists worry about the impact of millions of new cars on Indian roads, Tata argues Nanos could actually clear the air by replacing exhaust-belching motorbikes. The car is expected to hit Indian streets by July...
...want to see the world's richest governments keep the commitments they have made to Africa. These two have also argued that trade and investment will be more important than aid. But while business grows, African leaders at the International Monetary Fund conference in Tanzania in March made clear that development assistance is still needed too, for now. Kathy McKiernan, Global Communications Director, One WASHINGTON...
...correctly identify organic cotton as problematic in your article on ecological intelligence but fail to suggest the clear alternative: industrial (nondrug) hemp. The crop, which can be used as an alternative to cotton as well as a base for fuels and plastics, can grow with rainwater and requires no pesticides. The fact that the U.S., unlike most industrialized nations, continues to prohibit hemp deserves some serious attention in these dire times. Tim Mensching, ASTORIA...
...nation whose unregulated, red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism is widely blamed for an economic crisis that is making life miserable for millions, star wattage will get you only so far. In the run-up to the G-20, continental European powers such as France and Germany made it clear that they viewed with distaste the principal U.S. prescription for recovery: a massive fiscal stimulus to boost demand. Similarly, at the NATO summit to follow the G-20 meeting, Obama could expect to be met with warm words but few pledges of the troops he would like to augment...
...villains in this saga are not sorry. Almost 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote that "the greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but ... in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." Never before has the truth of his words been so apparent. Vicky Brago-Mitchell, LOS ANGELES...