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...constantly struggling to boost mileage without cutting power. Last week in Tokyo, Honda and Mitsubishi simultaneously said they have developed engines that can increase mileage up to 20% without cutting performance. Honda's VTEC-E engine, which the company says can get up to 65 m.p.g. on the highway without sacrificing power, will be offered in the Civic Hatchback VX, which makes its U.S. debut later this year. The new engine, which will eventually be available in all Honda models, is likely to be slightly more expensive...
...life than aid in the planned rape. Sometime before morning, however, Colonel Rida and thousands of other Iraqi troops pulled out of the city. Over the next 24 hours, many of the retreating soldiers (and an undetermined number of Kuwaiti hostages accompanying them) died as allied aircraft bombed the highway that led back to Iraq. "We can only pray that Rida was one of them," says Khalid...
...thinking they were TVs, and then wondered why "Lotus 123" never came on the air. When not laughing at their onetime tormentors, some Kuwaitis poke fun at the desirability of living in their wrecked country. A favorite joke has Kuwait's Public Works Ministry rushing to complete a new highway to Saudia Arabia, with all six lanes going...
...solutions, like the problems, are rarely simple. At Stonehenge, the , English Heritage, a commission created to help preserve ancient monuments, is seeking to close a public highway to reduce pollution and enhance the site. But residents are up in arms because the closure will force them out of their way to shop. "There is a thing worth preserving as much as Stonehenge -- and that is community life," says Amy Hall, a resident. "If we lived in the South American jungle, you'd be saying, 'Save the natives.' We're the natives here." The Rev. Robert Runcie, retired Archbishop of Canterbury...
...recession has cut deeply into state corporate and income tax revenues while also reducing consumer spending that generates sales taxes. Meanwhile outlays have climbed for highway maintenance and the construction of prisons. Add to that the rising expenditures for Medicaid, the federal and state program of health-care assistance for the poor. Medicaid spending by the states is expected to grow 25% this year, to more than $50 billion...