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...made mistakes in the past and realizing that they need to shift production to smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles (though it does seem as if they're just tossing that in there because such talk is all the rage these days). Who knows how much is genuine. Can giant corporations be genuine about stuff like that? Yet the case is also effectively made that the failure of the Big Three would be absolutely disastrous for a ton of people. Reading these reports leaves one feeling an odd combination of anger and pity...
Ridha Mohammed is an exception, however: he trained as an engineer at Baghdad University and owns a flourishing plumbing business. He lives just outside Sadr City, Baghdad's giant Shi'ite slum, where preachers at several mosques routinely assure their congregants that Obama is a fellow sectarian. "When Obama won," says Mohammed, "it was a big day in Sadr City. Many people felt, Now we have a brother in the White House." (Sadr City - estimated pop. 2 million - is a bastion of anti-Americanism, where the radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia, the Mahdi Army, hold...
...major players are massive multinational corporations like Mitsubishi, the world's biggest tuna trader - Japan imports the bulk of bluefin tuna caught in the Med. Some of the larger companies have created state-of-the-art tuna ranches in the Med's deep waters, where bluefin tuna swim into giant nets and are fattened over a period of months before being hauled out, processed in floating factories and then exported...
...damning indictment was part of a 400-page, interim Commission report based on evidence collected during January raids at the headquarters to some of the world's biggest drug companies, including U.S. companies Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, Britain's GlaxoSmithKline, Anglo-Swedish giant AstraZeneca, and Sanofi-Aventis of France. The other companies known to be raided were Wyeth, Merck, Bayer Schering Pharma and Roche, as well as generic firms Teva and Sandoz...
Winter weather can be unpredictable, and the Macy's parade has had its share of mishaps. Crosswinds hit balloons when they pass through intersections - Times Square is especially tricky - and can blow them off course. In 1928, a giant dog balloon escaped from its handlers, blew against a street sign and deflated. The same thing happened in 1956, when Mighty Mouse failed to save the day and collapsed instead. Heavy rain filled the brim of Donald Duck's hat in 1962, causing the character to tip over and dump 50 gallons of water on unamused onlookers. In 1971, rain fell...