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...collapse of U.S. carmakers sounds eerily similar to the impending bankruptcies of Social Security and Medicare. By failing to act now, the government is condemning us all to a worse future. There are fewer workers to support an increasing number of older retirees. What does the demise of the Big Three portend? Anthony Trujillo Escareño, Tustin, California...
...destinations-the pink city of Jaipur, the blue city of Jodhpur and the lake city of Udaipur-teem with hidden delights, from bustling local markets to old observatories to tranquil gardens. Further afield, ancient holy towns like Ajmer and Pushkar afford winding urban explorations and peaceful lake views with fewer touts and tourists in the way. The golden city of Jaisalmer, with its Persian-inspired villas and trains of camel caravans, rises out of the desert like a hallucination from The Arabian Nights. Some of India's last remaining great tigers prowl the forests of Ranthambore, while the airy hill...
What's your take on there being fewer literary reviews in newspapers and magazines? - Genevieve Powers, BROOKLINE, MASS...
Indeed, corn ethanol is no slam dunk. It costs more than gasoline to manufacture. It breaks down in existing pipelines, so it has to be trucked. It gets about 30% fewer miles to the gallon than gas. And ethanol does little, on balance, to reduce greenhouse gases. Nor does it help that corn ethanol's success depends on imponderables like subsidies, commodity prices, the weather, Congress, the geopolitics of oil and a limited distribution network. "Corn ethanol is clearly flawed," says Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, noting the billions...
Second, my Motorola Q phone, like everybody else’s, stopped working, making me inaccessible to anybody outside of my immediate vicinity. So, there have been fewer interruptions; my time has been less compartmentalized, so I could enjoy two hours at Felipe’s as if it was a Shabbat dinner. That’s how Felipe’s became a family restaurant...