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...course, or Asian manufacturers like Hyundai and Kia, which largely target budget shoppers. The Chinese cars are expected to carry rock-bottom prices along with generous warranties to ease concerns about their quality and long-term reliability. Since the Chinese exporters have such low labor costs - around $2 an hour - they can afford to pack the cars with standard features like electronic stability control, antilock brakes and rear-view cameras for parking assistance. Nor are the cars being designed with drab proleterian styling. The highly regarded Italian design shop Pininfarina produced the interior and exterior styling of the Liebao line...
...Anyone who thinks rope skipping is child's play hasn?t been to the 3-hour-a-day practices run by coach Ray Frederick, Jr., of the Bouncing Bulldogs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In a typical session, team members climb 2000 to 3000 football stadium steps and do 500 one-footed jumping jacks. That hard work has paid off. "We've won the national championship three years in a row now, and that's never happened before," says Frederick, whose team currently consists of 95 boys and girls, ranging from ages...
TIME: Isn't the need of the hour to unite and back a national government...
...unionized guards have lagged behind those of unionized Harvard workers in recent years. In addition, some workers have complained of inadequate health-care benefits and a deficient grievance process. A new contract negotiated by SEIU on behalf of the guards will likely augment their paltry $11-per-hour salary and provide more comprehensive benefits...
...many students feel that the measures taken in response to the false alarms are less than fair to those who are uninvolved. After an extinguisher was sprayed in Lowell basement during September, an entryway tutor claimed that, in retribution, the firefighters allowed the alarm to ring for half an hour longer than was necessary and refused to allow students to return to the entryway that night. In November, a similar evacuation of approximately 450 Eliot House students spiked tempers. Passions ignited after a firefighter went on a tirade on a loudspeaker after the incident, threatening that if anybody pulled...