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...Terrain are replacements for older GM models that have failed to dislodge the competition in growing market segments. The SRX, for example, is aimed at a segment virtually invented by Lexus with vehicles such as the highly popular RX330. It offers a contemporary exterior design, a well-appointed interior and improved fuel economy that GM hopes will give buyers sitting on the fence ample reason to select it over a competitor. GM has also indicated that it is pricing the vehicle aggressively - that is, slightly under the competition - in an effort to win over more buyers. (See the 50 worst...
...down. U.N. sanctions on diamond and timber exports have been lifted. Liberia is attracting foreign investment in iron ore, timber, palm oil and construction. Though steel giant Arcelor Mittal recently mothballed a $1.5 billion project to reopen an iron-ore mine and rebuild a railway in the eastern interior, Liberia has signed a deal with Sime Darby of Malaysia for an $800 million, 20-year concession to a 494,000-acre (200,000 hectare) combined palm-oil and rubber plantation. Earlier this year, the IMF and World Bank canceled Liberia's $4.7-billion foreign debt. "I'm not saying Liberia...
...pythons now, preying on rare bird and mammal wildlife. "If we don't get on top of this, they're going to eradicate the indigenous species of the Everglades," Rodney Barreto, Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission chairman, said during a visit this year by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Or beyond: the pythons are believed to be moving northward into other parts of Florida...
...start of the downturn, a change that experts say is likely to boost the country's growing tourism sector and thereby the number of visitors willing to pay for a thrill. "The country is becoming a paradise for sex tourism before our eyes," says Yuri Lutsenko, Ukraine's interior minister, who worries about the trend. Police experts forecast that Ukraine's sex industry will more than double its revenues this year, generating $1.5 billion. But Anna Hutsol, head of Kiev-based women's rights group FEMEN, is worried that the prostitution boom and Ukraine's deepening unemployment will increase...
...thousands of protesters began their trek in the morning in a carnival atmosphere of beating drums and Latin grooves blaring out of trucks' sound systems. Their hopes rose when police blocking their path gave way after negotiation, signaling the corps may have split loyalties. They surrounded the airport, whose interior was guarded by soldiers. But an hour before the plane was due to land, some protesters started breaking the airport fence, and the troops unleashed their gunfire onto the streets around the facility...