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...will be an electric car with a solar-panel roof, designed for the city and small trips," Ronald Gerschewski, head of IndiKar, the original Trabi manufacturer, told reporters. (See the history of the electric...
...light came on in my head. I've been incarcerated and this experience, [coupled] with the physical element, sparked me to think about what it would take to help someone who had never experienced violence transfer into a whole new society. Many of these guys are fat cats who never had to worry about anything. They really have to adapt quickly, because there are so many people to piss off and so many things you can do wrong. If you wind up doing something on the "No" list, it can make your time - whether it's 16 months...
...surrounded by waist-high weeds or boarded-up windows. "The tarp on that busted roof is about to disintegrate, it's been there so long," says Andre Williams, a Harvard-educated real estate attorney and Miami Gardens city councilman, pointing at one of the houses and shaking his head at the state of the solid middle-class, African-American community he grew up in. "We had a 70% homeownership rate in this city. We took a lot of pride in that...
...problems and think you've solved everything, but in fact you haven't done anything in the last four hours, because you've just been chewing khat and all your problems actually got worse," says Adel al-Shujaa, a professor of political science at Sana'a University and the head of the Yemen Without Khat Association. Plus, he says, "all the decisions you've made are bad because you've made them while on khat...
...many devotees, khat is a social lubricant on a par with coffee or alcohol in the West. Indeed, because chewing the leaf isn't forbidden by Islam, "khat is alcohol for Muslims," says Yahya Amma, the head merchant at the Agriculture Suq, one of the largest khat markets in the city. "You can chew it and still go to prayers." The leaf's energy-boosting and hunger-numbing properties help university students focus on their homework, allows underpaid laborers to work without meals and, according to local lore, offers the same help to impotent men that Westerners seek in Viagra...