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...those millions of sedans, pickups and SUVs have reached the end of their useful life. America is becoming a rolling junkyard; the average car is 9.4 years old, a new record, says Buscher. "Light trucks are 7.5 years old. They haven't been that old for 10 years," he adds. In two years, says an industry economist, 35 million cars now on the road will be at least 10 years old. There's not enough duct tape in America to hold that much junk together. Even if they don't conk out, keeping these beaters going becomes an increasingly expensive...
...growth then turbocharges to about 7%, if the past is any measure. Analysts insist that when you combine the replacement demand, scrappage rates, demographic changes and an economic recovery, there's a case to be made that North American demand will approach 16 million units within five years. "We haven't seen this kind of positive force in replacement demand for this amount for a while," says the auto economist. And thanks to growing overseas markets like China and Russia, where GM is well positioned, industry growth outside the U.S. will be even greater...
...Tononi and a growing number of other scientists believe that sleep - not just in flies but also in higher-order mammals - may perform such a pressure-releasing role. During sleep, researchers theorize, the brain actively prunes the neural network laid out during waking hours, trimming away weaker connections that haven't been used in a while or weren't strong 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...
...While the medications currently prescribed are already much safer in the short term than the ones commonly used during the study period, their long-term effects on health are still unknown, since they simply haven't been circulating long enough for any damaging side effects to have surfaced. But, Ho notes, "I always felt the side effects of HIV are greater than the side effects of the drugs." After all, he says, "the side effect of unchecked HIV is death...
Daydreaming about Harvard in high school, you may have imagined wood-panel rooms lined with dozens of Gutenberg Bibles and the busts of ancient Greek philosophers—a haven where students would absorb knowledge from the mere scent of the ancient books surrounding them. Uhhhh...maybe not. Maybe you just smoked pot or played the sousaphone. But anyway, you'll grant FlyBy that studying at Harvard is not quite the stuff of dreams (especially in the early morning). That's where the House libraries come in. Many replicate a sense...