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...uphill battle. Americans may say they hate their long commute, but there's little evidence that they're eager to abandon a lifestyle built around the car. If one city could represent the opposite of New Urbanism, it would be sprawling, decentralized Atlanta, where extreme commuting is fast becoming the norm. (Coincidence or not, Atlanta is one of the fastest growing metro areas in the U.S.) And sprawl is spreading overseas, to developing nations like China that are fast abandoning traditional, dense neighborhoods as they fall in love with the car. "We'll design a community for [Chinese clients] that...
...market is relatively small - just 3% in mid-2007 - sales jumped 472% in the first half of the year and are projected to double in 2008 to between 100,000 and 150,000 units, says Moscow-based Ernst & Young auto analyst Ivan Bonchev. "The Russian market is growing extremely fast, with heavy demand for cars, which domestic makers far from satisfy," says Great Wall Motor president Wang Fengying...
...Russia offers more to China's carmakers than the opportunity for fast growth. It may take decades for Chinese cars - which today are cheap, technologically unsophisticated and unable to meet tough Western safety and emissions standards - to be accepted by U.S. and European consumers. Russians, though, are snapping them up, giving Chinese companies a chance to gain experience navigating the overseas market while the training wheels are still attached. Russia is a "guinea-pig market," says Bonchev. That doesn't mean it's insignificant. Russia's growing middle class provides a big pool of would-be car owners. Viktor Semyonov...
...good enough to make him the second-leading scorer in the country. He is just one of nine Division I players to have notched a 10-game scoring streak. Fucito was the only member of the team to be selected to the Academic All-Ivy first team. The dangerously fast forward finished the year with 11 goals and seven assists for 29 points. The marks were the best of his career. His 1.71 points per game was the ninth best in the nation. He and Akpan finished the year tied with six multi-point games. —JULIA...
...rink is one of only six Olympic-sized rinks in the nation and caters well to UNH’s speedy teams. Of the teams’ last six clashes, all four that were played in Durham were Wildcats wins. But this year’s Crimson squad is fast in its own right, and, if anything, should have benefited from the extra ice. “Certainly, there is a big difference between an Olympic-sized sheet of ice and the majority of college rinks,” Stone said. “We could have used...