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...CAFE standards: A arduously negotiated, ever-so-slight increase in SUV and light-truck fuel efficiency did make it into the Republican bill, which requires Detroit to set standards that would save 5 billion gallons of oil between 2004 and 2010, but doesn?t specify those standards (most number-crunchings have it at a measly extra...
...decrease consumption, and one way for the government to do that is increasing Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards for SUVs and light trucks. Those vehicles have long been subject to lower standards because of their supposed use mainly for business activity. But these days, as Detroit reaps its most abundant profits selling the vehicles to soccer moms and dads, there?s a push to tighten standards and let carmakers start using better engine technology to make up the difference...
...Bush has largely stayed mum on the issue, sensitive to Detroit?s mortal fear of anything that cuts into its already precarious profit margins. But aggressive CAFE standards wouldn?t bankrupt the industry, and loudly acceding to Democrats? efforts to raise them significantly could surprise Bush?s critics and put the president in a good environmental light - at least outside of Michigan...
...black thing. Columnist Roberto Rodriguez has written about having his car "ripped apart" by federal agents in New Mexico two years ago because he was traveling "a suspicious route." In June the U.S. Department of Transportation began investigating complaints that Arab Americans are searched too often at the Detroit airport. And a judge is considering whether to open sealed documents from the FBI's untidy case against Wen Ho Lee, a former Los Alamos engineer who was accused of stealing U.S. nuclear information. Last year Lee pleaded guilty to improperly downloading classified material, but activists say the sealed documents...
Born Aaliyah Dana Haughton in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in Detroit, Aaliyah didn't begin her career as the butt-kicking type. She performed on Star Search when she was 11 and failed to win. Closely supported by family (her mom is her manager), she released her first album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, when she was just 15 but was rocked by scandal when reports surfaced that she had secretly married R. Kelly, the producer of her debut, who was 10 years older. Kelly and Aaliyah have since parted ways. When asked if she is still...