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...Hummer brand, however, could be on the road to extinction if GM cannot soon finish a deal with China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, the only bidder for the controversial brand. GM announced plans to spin it off while reorganizing under bankruptcy protection this past summer. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...more convenient than free concerts under the $25 BSO College Card, because for that, you would have to trek all the way to the box office on the day of the concert to see if they actually have tickets available for that night. For this new deal, which was made possible by an anonymous (elderly?) donor, you can actually buy tickets online and show your photo ID when you're picking up your tickets at the door...
...climate news that began on Sept. 22 with a high-level U.N. summit on warming. Before "Climate Week" began, the U.S. Senate made intimations that it would not likely vote on a carbon cap-and-trade bill before the year was up, dimming the chances for a global deal at Copenhagen. But, then, China pledged to improve energy efficiency, while progress was made toward crafting a way to use global carbon markets to slow tropical deforestation. That gave environmentalists some hope. "Overall, I still feel better than I did a week ago," said Carstensen. "We had 100 leaders...
...Russia, is vastly outnumbered by Toyotas, Nissans and Hyundais on the highway connecting Irkutsk, on the eastern fringe of Siberia, with Vladivostok. "They call the Far East the Land of the White Toyotas," Moisseev says. He added that First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov had been spending a great deal of time in the Far East; in March, Shuvalov had taken part in another anti-crisis forum in Khabarovsk...
Zelaya is now betting he can bring the coup leaders to the table to sign the San José Accord, the deal brokered by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias with the backing of the U.S. and the Organization of American States. It would return Zelaya to the presidency for the waning months of his term - but with certain conditions, such as dropping the Constitutional reform effort - while granting an amnesty to the coup leaders. "We have to do this," says Zelaya. "I don't want to see Honduras become the first Latin American country of the 21st century to revert...