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...safe, saving oil and lives without compromising comfort or pep. For example, a midsize SUV made of carbon fiber could cut fuel use 72%, and the vehicle's extra cost could be repaid from fuel savings in about three years. Our proposals would expand car buyers' range and freedom of choice and increase automakers' profits and competitive strength. Amory B. Lovins, CEO Rocky Mountain Institute Old Snowmass...
...camp is like an old-fashioned college campus-without the freedom, of course." MARTHA STEWART, former CEO of Martha Stewart Omnimedia, in a posting on her website about life at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp, where she is serving five months on a conspiracy conviction...
...TIME: How is the situation in Tibet? Dalai Lama: Despite some economic improvement and development, the threats to our cultural heritage, religious freedom and environment are very serious. Then also in the countryside, facilities in education and health are very, very poor. It's like the big gap in China proper between rich and poor. So the whole picture, it almost looks hopeless. When the 13th Dalai Lama visited China in the early 20th century, there was a large Manchurian community?even the Emperor was Manchurian. Almost exactly 50 years later when I visited, the Manchurian community was no longer...
Incoming European Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso faces an uproar in the European Parliament that could cost him his job before it's even slated to begin on Nov. 1. Barroso's problem starts with his designated Commissioner for Justice, Security and Freedom, Rocco Buttiglione, formerly Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi's Minister for European Affairs. When he testified on Oct. 5 before the Parliament, Buttiglione mentioned that he considers homosexuality a sin and holds the "traditional" view that marriage is meant to give a "woman the right to have children and the protection...
...insurgents hope to pull Mosul apart by targeting those people best-placed to help unify it. Threats and assassinations often target the city's professional classes, workers in its economically vital oil industry and known political moderates. "Anyone who advocates freedom and democracy is considered to be publicly for America and a target," says Rooa al-Zrary, a Mosul journalist whose father, the editor of a moderate newspaper, was murdered last year. Doctors are fleeing, finding work in Erbil. "The situation is bad and getting worse," says a surgeon at Salaam Hospital, the city's largest. Adds a colleague...