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...light trucks has little to do with real-world performance. John DeCicco, the automotive expert for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), estimates that in actual driving, the current measured CAFE standard, for cars, is closer to 22 m.p.g, and, for trucks, closer to 18 m.p.g. "It's longstanding common knowledge that the government has been keeping two sets of books on fuel economy for decades," DeCicco says...
...figuring out how to wean the world off the flush handle took center stage. Though the common flush toilet has remained largely the same since it's invention in 1596, the world it inhabits has changed drastically. City populations have mushroomed, sewers have become overburdened and water has become scarcer. Now, the flushing loo - that human innovation that lifted the industrialized world out of its own dirt, cholera and dysentery - is quickly becoming one of the more egregious instruments of waste in this time of acutely finite resources. "The world can't sustain this toilet," says Jack Sim, the founder...
...Notice a common denominator here? Most of these couples sealed the deal only after taking on vacation together. Hm. Maybe there's something to be said for sipping pre-paid fruity cocktails on the beach at Club Med. (See TIME'S 50 Authentic American Experiences...
...teleprompter so he'd be sure to get it exactly right, delivered what even skeptics called one of the great political sermons of our time. "They said this day would never come," he declared. "They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose. But on this January night - at this defining moment in history - you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do." He won women without the help of women's groups, blacks without the help of race pols, and that golden snitch of American politics, the youth vote...
...national debt passed $10 trillion in September; in the next month, we added $500 billion to it - the fastest, deepest plunge into red ink in more than 50 years. Will Obama end the double standard between how Washington works and how everyplace else does, the loopholes it defends, the common sense it defies...