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...end, the EPA's new EREV testing process, like the one that California's Air Resources Board (ARB) uses, may not actually measure gasoline usage at all but rather kilowatt hours per 100 miles, or kWh/100m. That figure is converted into miles per gallon, which effectively makes miles per gallon irrelevant...
...slashed room prices to increase occupancy rates to 82% from a low of 72%. On the right day in July, you could book the type of 750-sq.-ft. room that was $500 a year ago at the Wynn for $109 and get a $50 gift certificate. The high-end restaurants at the MGM have gotten rid of most of their $400 bottles of wine and replaced them with $100 ones. This is either a model for the rest of the country or, if the reset fails, the beginning of a long, long slide...
...President Bill Clinton on suspicion that Khartoum had ongoing ties to Osama bin Laden), accusations that Sudan practices slavery, a long-running civil war and the bloody conflict in Darfur. It helps that the country's fast-growing oil industry, closer ties to China and a peace deal to end the civil war have fueled strong economic growth over the past few years. If it weren't for the Darfur crisis, al-Bashir might now be reaping the rewards of a rapprochement with the West. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...years ago, the hour-long drive between Liberia's main airport and the center of the capital Monrovia was both dangerous and terrifying. Even after the end of the civil war in 2003, the road was insecure and pockmarked with potholes. But when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drove into Monrovia through the rain this morning she did so over new tarmac and with no threat of attack. Infrastructure and security are the foundations on which Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wants to rebuild her country...
...Clinton, who is nearing the end of her 11-day, seven-country trip around Africa, praised all that Johnson Sirleaf has accomplished, and deftly dodged repeated media inquires about the U.S. position on a recent report that publicly sanctions the President and recommends she not serve in government for the next 30 years because of her early association with warlord Charles Taylor, now on trial for war crimes committed in Sierra Leone. On several occasions, Clinton made reference to the fact that many in today's Liberian government played dubious roles during the war. While addressing the legislature, she said...