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...buyers made the rational calculation that off-roading and towing might be useful in an emergency. (At a time when everyone is duct-taping the windows, it doesn't seem so crazy to think you would one day drive the family into the mountains.) How else to explain GM research showing that the No. 1 reason people buy midsize SUVs is that the vehicles have four-wheel drive, a feature most people rarely need? Americans frequently pay extra for security: alarm systems, travel insurance, fire extinguishers. If you consider what they can do on dirt and snow, SUVs aren...
...comments on rollovers infuriated auto executives: "We have thousands of employees who work on safety issues every day," says Jay Cooney, a GM spokesman. "They wouldn't put their own family or anybody's family in a vehicle they thought was unsafe." Auto lobbyists point out that NHTSA generates its rollover ratings simply by calculating the height of a vehicle's center of gravity in proportion to its width--how top-heavy it is, essentially--not by measuring its performance in the real world. (Which is true, though later this year NHTSA will begin using a more subtle ratings system...
...Ridley, author of ?Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters,? offered an even more cheerful perspective. Arguing that the early fears about tinkering with genes had proved to be groundless, he went on to dismiss the current concerns of many of his fellow Europeans about genetically modified (GM) foods. Mother Nature, he said wryly, had been engaged in such crossbreeding experiments for millions of years. ?She?s got a huge research budget,? he added, ?and the chances of us beating her at that game seem to me rather remote.? As for human cloning, he saw no moral arguments...
Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman will attempt to give a balanced lecture on the nature of capitalism today in Major League Baseball. Topics such as revenue sharing, television markets, fan attendance, marketing and stadiums will be discussed. Students will be required to write an end-of-term research paper on what improvements, if any, should be made to the current collective bargaining agreement. Is it fair that a team with a $200 million payroll can compete in the same league as a team with a $40 million payroll? Are the Yankees actually...
...will send Adil to collect the family's rations. In anticipation of a war, the government has released two months' quota, and is encouraging people to stock up. Adil gets 70 kg of flour, 6 kg of rice, 10 kg of vegetable oil, 8 kg of sugar - and 500 gm of tea. The next guests to his home will not leave on empty stomachs...