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...German parliament just seven years ago representing the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, which is aligned with Chancellor Merkel's party. A fluent English speaker, he soon made a name for himself in parliament as a foreign policy and defense expert. But it wasn't until last fall, when the CSU went into meltdown after suffering big losses in the Bavarian state elections that Zu Guttenberg was thrown into the spotlight. Last November the rising star won his party's top job. When Michael Glos quit his job as Economy Minister last month, the CSU decided to replace...
...that it will keep people from buying new cars. In some cases that is true. But, the fact that Ford's sales monthly are down as much as 40% undercuts the logic. As people keep cars longer, the argument will be less compelling. Most new vehicle buyers now probably fall into two groups. The first are people whose vehicles are so old or badly damaged that they need a new car. The other group is people who want a new car, can afford a new car, and will walk into a dealer and buy one any day they please...
...Puzzlingly, however, the junta's planting directive has not been matched by adequate infrastructure to turn those acres into energy, like collection mechanisms, processing plants, distribution systems. My friend dutifully tends his jatropha trees and then watches the seeds fall on the ground and die. In his case, the spindly physic-nut shrubs in his garden are supplanting a fragrant frangipani tree or colorful hibiscus bush. But elsewhere in Burma - a nation where UNICEF estimates malnutrition afflicts one-third of children - farmers have had to put aside valuable crop land for a wasted plant...
...intellectually stimulating as anything. I just think that people fight it a little bit.”Despite this perceived resistance, the demographics of the comics readership have been rapidly changing to include adults. “We’ve seen the young part of the readership fall away from the American mainstream comics,” says Davis, whose store just celebrated its 35th anniversary. “We don’t get the 10-, 12-, and 14-year-old boys that we used to get. They’ve been replaced by a more female readership...
...effect as the Nite Owl rediscovers his libido.“Watchmen” has flaws, but Snyder has proven that translating it to the screen could be done, and done well. The old caution, however, that the book should be read first, applies here more than ever. To fall asleep during this film would be an unfortunate waste, and though he is not credited in the film, one should pay respect to the brilliance of Moore’s original before enjoying this film as a second course. —Staff writer Alexander R. Konrad can be reached...