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...stop using so much of it. Even with less than a full term left in office, there is much Bush could accomplish in immediately and realistically cutting America’s “addiction to oil.” Possibilities include a gas tax, increased subsidies for hybrid vehicles, or penalties for gas-guzzling SUVs. With the right economic incentives, consumers would be happy to pull up to the 76 or Mobil station only every other month in 100-mile-per-gallon, plug-in hybrid cars. According to a 2004 report from the Congressional Budget Office, it is estimated...
...Jungen is something of a cultural hybrid himself. His father, born in Switzerland, was 3 when he came to British Columbia with Jungen's grandparents, who had been enticed to Canada by government promises of farmable land. His mother was of native background, a member of the Dane-zaa Nation. "Interracial couples were very taboo," he says. "White guys could have native girls as girlfriends, but not wives." Jungen grew up on farms around Fort St. John, a once remote oil and logging center in northeastern British Columbia. He was 7 when his parents died in a fire...
...never forsaken the concert hall, but an ideal week is playing a concerto one night and then going into a club the next. These two worlds are reconciled.” He is working to connect Carnegie and the coffeehouse. in effect, to create a hybrid musical experience, both democratic and rooted in classical tradition. “When I go back to the concert hall,” he explains, “I try to bring back the coffeehouse feeling. I’m trying to infiltrate the culture and I want to bring this music...
...This was roundly applauded by people at the speech-watching party at the conservative Family Research Council, who understood exactly what the President was saying and why he was saying it. As for the rest of the audience, its curiosity was sufficiently piqued that human-animal hybrid was among the most searched-for terms on the Internet the next...
Disney's lineup includes next December's eccentric time-travel tale Meet the Robinsons, with a critter comedy, American Dog, and a familiar fairy tale, Rapunzel, in years ahead. Set for 2007 is Enchanted, a live-action-plus-animation hybrid la Roger Rabbit, about a storybook princess who enters the real world of modern Manhattan. Then there's Gnomeo & Juliet, a musical remake of Shakespeare's tragedy (it worked for West Side Story) featuring garden gnomes, with songs by executive producer Elton John. Disney is also developing a new Three Little Pigs, using Caldecott Award winner David Wiesner...