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...story is laced with warnings for its fast-rising rival. While GM is still the world's biggest automaker, its North American market share has slid for years despite costly incentive programs. Saddled with excess capacity and sluggish sales of all-new cars like the Pontiac G6, the company recently forecast a first-quarter loss of nearly $850 million. Highly profitable, full-size SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe risked looking like beached whales as record gas prices crimp sales and consumers shift to smaller models and hybrids made by rivals. (Until recently, GM dismissed passenger-car hybrids as a lousy...
...remarkable aspect of Director Robin Lynn Smith's production is the showcase it provides for Kathy Bates, 37, who since her Tony-nominated performance in 1983's night, Mother has firmly established herself as one of the nation's foremost character actresses. Although Bates is capable of gothic comic excess, here she underplays the mother as a frustrated housewife, aware of a larger world of culture and glamour outside somewhere but awkwardly uncertain about just what she is missing. Bates perfectly balances the ruthless selfishness of the mother's ambitions, and her shameless attempt at larceny to fulfill them, against...
Even with it, Arizona is hardly awash in excess water. Indeed, Babbitt sought to ensure that Arizona's liquid riches would not be squandered, by winning passage in 1980 of the nation's most stringent water-management program. The law discourages the state's farmers from using CAP water to expand production of heavily irrigated cotton and citrus crops by requiring the growers to forgo an amount of groundwater equal to their use of the new supply. The measure also provides for the sale of water rights by farmers to developers and local water systems, thus promoting growth without creating...
...researchers found that 13 percent suffered from hyponatremia, a condition characterized by excess water in the blood, which causes sodium levels to fall. Water then moves to areas of higher sodium content in the body, causing cells to swell...
...wonder whether Johnson’s portrait is too simplistic. He seems to be seduced by the one-dimensional David-and-Goliath characterization of change in China. But it is not clear that the Communist Party is so uniformly bad. Despite their record of corruption, human rights violations, and excess bureaucracy, the Communists have also doubled life expectancy, educated more people than ever before, and dramatically raised living standards. My family in China, like countless others, can now expect what has heretofore been unthinkable in Chinese history: a life of economic prosperity, social stability, and modern technology?...