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...more environmentally conscious public. Fuji Heavy Industries, the maker of Subaru, announced on June 4 its rollout plans for its Stella EV, which has a sticker price of $48,000 and a range of 90 km. The company will begin delivering the vehicles around the same time as Mitsubishi (late July) and expects to produce about 170 units this fiscal year, compared with 1,400 for the i-MiEV. Nissan, too, will unveil an EV in August, with production planned for 2010. (See the history of the electric...
...regatta’s marquee event, the Harvard varsity eight came up a little short. The Crimson was never truly in contention for first, which for most of the race was occupied by either the top-seeded Golden Bears or the Cardinals. Surging from the rest of the pack late in the contest, Washington caught Cal with about 250 meters left and pulled ahead in the final 100 meters to win by nine tenths of a second. “They’re really strong people, people who have raced at senior world championships…even Olympians...
Just after lunchtime on Friday back in Arlington, Deeds cheerfully ignored the rain while greeting voters at the Clarendon Metro Station. Half an hour late, Deeds cited the one excuse that is always plausible in northern Virginia: traffic, literally the top issue of the campaign. Though his blue suit was turning dark around the shoulders with moisture, Deeds wandered about without an umbrella shaking hands with everyone in sight, including the media. Deeds, who represents rural Bath County in western Virginia, had languished in third place until he received his own big endorsement, this one a surprisingly resounding one from...
...team busy at work after midnight. Approval was quickly secured for a drone strike. Then, to gain a fuller picture, the camera zoomed out to reveal a brickmaking factory just a few feet away. It was the Islamic fasting holiday of Ramadan, and the energy-depleted laborers were working late to avoid...
...always some twisted policy goal that drives Pyongyang to kidnapping; Kim has also resorted to abduction to satisfy his personal whims. The North Korean dictator has long had a passion for movies, but he evidently believed North Korea's cinema wasn't up to his standards. In the late '70s, when his father Kim Il Sung was running the country, Kim apparently ordered the abduction of Shin Sang-ok, then perhaps the most famous film producer in the South, and his wife, Choi Eun-hee, a famous actress. Shin was imprisoned for four years, then forced to make a socialist...