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Chris Paine's documentary makes an unapologetic case for the car and an unofficial indictment of the forces allied against it: the auto and gasoline industries, an Administration stocked with former executives of oil companies and, not least, the American consumer, who would rather strut in a gas-gorging Hummer than put-put in a modest little...
...Amount in the jar. The woman, a heroin addict, told police she needed gas money...
Cheap junk food has never been hard to find - it overflows in supermarkets, corner stores and even gas stations. But Americans' burgeoning interest in healthier eating has prompted a surge in the availability of healthier foods, which have long battled for supermarket shelf space with saltier, sweeter alternatives. Fruits and veggies are being packaged in new forms, without spoiling their nutritional value. Last year manufacturers introduced more than 400 whole-grain products, according to ProductScan research, and hundreds more are coming out this year. Some are just slightly less junkier version of sugar-loaded snacks, but others are worth trying...
...Putin's government focuses on other business issues, such as gaining control of natural gas supplies to Europe and leveraging Russia's vast energy resources, that problem is growing. Allofmp3, run by a mysterious company called Mediaservices Inc., looks legit even if its legal status is questionable. The site accepts Visa and Mastercard, and a Dutch firm, ChronoPay, processes credit card transactions. The site declares that it is authorized to sell downloads by an organization called the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS) and FAIR, another copyright licensing agency. Read the fine print and you'll see that Mediaservices claims...
...familiarity displaces fear overseas, rising demand for electricity and concerns about the environmental costs of getting it from coal and gas are prompting many Australians to rethink their prejudice against nuclear power. Physicist Martin Sevior, who led a recent study of the issue at the University of Melbourne, believes "there is a credible case for nuclear power plants," provided Australia adopts lessons learned elsewhere. According to zoologist Tim Flannery, whose book The Weather Makers calls for urgent action on climate change, if Australia replaced all of its coal-fired plants with nuclear ones, "we would have done something great...