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...started across the sand, crawling very fast. The Germans in the pillbox on the right flank were shooting up the sand all about me. I expected a bullet to rip through me at any moment. I reached the stone wall without further injury. I was now safe from the flat-trajectory weapons of the enemy. All I had to fear now were enemy mines and artillery shells...
...moment that consumers want more economical cars. "I get a sense that nobody is panicking about this, and that makes me a little nervous," says Steve Girsky, senior automotive analyst at Morgan Stanley. It has happened before. In the 1970s, when gas prices soared, the Big Three were caught flat-footed with large, fuel-hungry cars, allowing Honda, Nissan and Toyota to swoop in and grab market share. If it happens again, the pain will be shared by Japanese manufacturers. Toyota is planning to ramp up production of its full-size pickup, the Tundra, with a plant under construction...
...average worldwide darkening to be about 4% over three decades, while another computes it to be more than twice that much. There are also questions about the reliability of the devices that measure the sunlight reaching Earth's surface. Known as radiometers, these instruments are nothing more than flat, black solar collectors capped with glass. They are sometimes finicky; a smudge of dirt or a speck of dust can cause bogus readings and change the calculated results...
Coffee And Cigarettes? The title is a flat-out anachronism. As the sales curve at Starbucks proves, we still meet our pals for conversations in public caffeine dispensaries. But cigarettes are verboten...
...property - they use much more aggressive investment strategies, like short selling, where an investor seeks to benefit from declining market prices; derivatives, where an investor uses instruments derived from the price of an underlying financial asset; and arbitrage, where an investor tries to exploit price differentials between markets. Flat stock markets have meant dwindling returns for institutional investors, who have been forced to seek other ways to plug the shortfalls in their portfolios. In addition to Railpen pledging $1.1 billion to hedge funds, earlier this year British Telecommunications' pension fund said it planned to invest $895 million. Says Railpen...