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...cars - and that have flexible manufacturing plants to turn out the hot products on demand - are likely to find huge opportunities for growth once the economy recovers. That's partly why there's so much riding on the Administration's plans to revamp GM - and why it had better happen fast. If U.S. automakers don't take advantage of the coming car boom, the rest of the world will. See pictures of Detroit's decline...
...enough to begin with. The stronger connections are believed to be filed during sleep into long-term memory, where they can be accessed again and again as needed. All this nocturnal tidying creates room for new connections to be formed when the brain wakes again. "If this didn't happen, theoretically, over time, the brain would reach capacity and be unable to learn or remember new things," says Shaw. "After a night's sleep, the next morning the brain wakes up and is ready to go, ready to acquire new information...
...year, the Europeans will assess whether Turkey complies with its obligation to extend its customs union with the E.U. (in place since 1996) to Cyprus. Turkey will not do that unless there is tangible progress in ongoing talks about a political settlement on the island. But for this to happen, big E.U. countries will have to lean more heavily on the recalcitrant Greek Cypriots...
...this gut-wrenching downturn, the Germans and the Japanese are no longer alone. "It's happening a lot," says Raymond Torres, director of the ILO's International Institute for Labor Studies. "People are trading off their jobs for wage cuts and other measures." There's even some anecdotal evidence that it's starting to happen in the U.S., where companies have traditionally not hesitated to lay off staff in a downturn; last month the New York Times announced a 5% pay cut for some of its staff in return for extra vacation days...
...Netanyahu's showdown with Washington may happen soon. Leader of the hawkish Likud Party, Netanyahu will meet with U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell in Jerusalem on April 16. That meeting will be a dress rehearsal for the Prime Minister's trip to Washington in May for talks with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who are pushing for the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza as a key to a wider peace in the region. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...