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...Challenge," doling out $50 a month in free Flexcar use for a year to people who can prove they sold their family's second car in favor of car sharing. In Portland, Ore., people whose automobiles fail emissions tests get $500 worth of free Flexcar use if they junk their cars. Outside Washington, the Virginia suburbs of Alexandria and Arlington pay membership fees for any residents who want to join a car-sharing plan. In Greenbelt, Md., the city leases a vehicle from Zipcar, a Massachusetts-based car-sharing firm, stationing it at a senior-citizens complex and renting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clearing the Roads | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...matter what, and they don't always think rationally. If I can remember that, it defuses the situation. It's not about me. It's not about attacking our system. It's about a parent trying to do the best for their child. That helps keep the personal junk out of the way. I don't get so emotional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents Behaving Badly | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

...Estimated percentage of all e-mails that were unsolicited "spam" messages in January 2004, when the U.S. Congress passed the anti-junk mail Can-Spam Act 80% Estimated percentage that are "spam" messages today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...findings.  University of Alaska psychologist Judith S. Kleinfeld compiled her own study, in which she described the MIT report as a “political manifesto masquerading as science.” And The Wall Street Journal editorial page called it “junk science...

Author: By Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Uncomfortably, Hopkins Basks in Media Glow | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

...line with British practices. "Most countries are going for more transparency," says Jean-Nicolas Caprasse of Brussels-based shareholder-rights group Deminor. For bosses there's consolation: Caprasse says greater transparency pushes up pay as executives see what their peers earn - and argue for bigger raises. Declaring War on Junk Food Calling obesity a "European-wide problem of epidemic proportions" - no surprise there - the European Commission last week vowed that the battle of the bulge will be a high priority over the next five years. Target No. 1: junk food ads. Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou warned that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

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