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...corner, and that electrically powered cars are the instant solution. And I will tell you that there is no silver bullet. We have to embrace a whole range of alternative technologies. If we want to view electrically powered cars as one very viable means of getting to the Promised Land, then we have to face the reality that there are huge technological hurdles to overcome with regard to battery technology: cost, durability, charging and driving range...
...year. As disposable income in the country grows, amusement parks have proliferated throughout the country - by some estimates there are as many as 2,000 - but the quality of the attractions is uneven. Earlier this year, a sex-themed park in the central Chinese city of Chongqing called Love Land was torn down before it could open to the public. Shanghai, however, could be on the verge of a tourism boom. The city will host the World Expo starting...
...Days After In a lot of ways, the deck was stacked in favor of the Allies. They had the advantage in numbers in every category - land, sea and air - while the Germans were badly depleted by the war on the Eastern front. The Germans were also hamstrung by their unbelievably byzantine and incoherent command structure - Untersturmführers and Obergruppenführers are thick on the ground in D-Day - which had a delusional Hitler at its apex...
...many of the German soldiers truly believed that the very existence of Germany - and therefore civilization itself - was at stake, and they fought with fanatic zeal. Unable to land a decisive blow, the two sides settled into a ghastly war of attrition that ate men and machines while giving back little in the way of actual territorial gains...
...also the story of the destructive arrival of the modern age in Europe. The armies that rolled through Normandy obliterated an ancient land and way of life that would be rebuilt but never restored. At one point, Beevor describes the astonishment of an old Benedictine nun emerging from her convent during the evacuation of Caen: she had never seen a truck before. It took a world war to chivy out the last vestiges of the 19th century from where they still lived, peacefully sequestered in the bocage, and expunge them forever. The Germans and the Allies would eventually leave Normandy...