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...federal reimbursement for the subsidy consumers get for trading in their cars, dealers must first destroy the engine. One common method is to drain the car's oil and flood the engine with sodium silicate, or liquid glass. Dealers then turn the car on and rev the engine to let the solution harden. In just a few minutes, the car becomes inoperable. (Read "How Bad Are Auto Sales? 10 Questions and Answers...
Creative Freedom Re "Let Someone Else Buy" by Justin Fox: it is interesting to see that the strongest and rising economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China - are also the ones with some of the worst records of copyright abuse [July 13]. Could it be that the corporations who are desperately clinging to their copyrights and intellectual properties, and spending billions in protecting them (mostly to the advantage of the lawyers and not the original creators), are in fact stifling innovation and economic growth in the process? Chris Patmore, LONDON...
Usually, stars are paid what they will bring in at the box office. So if you get, let's say, Will Smith, you're guaranteed to get his salary or more the first weekend, just by his name alone. The movie doesn't have to be fantastic. But he certainly draws people in, and that's why we pay him the money...
...bothered by the fact that I will never have beautiful handwriting. My printing will always be fat and round and look as if it came from a 12-year-old. And let's be honest: the Declaration of Independence is already hard to read. We are living in the age of social networks and frenzied conversation, composing more e-mails, texting more messages and keeping in touch with more people than ever before. Maybe this is the trade-off. We've given up beauty for speed, artistry for efficiency. And yes, maybe we are a little bit lazy...
...volunteering for typically salaried jobs, such as trail maintenance and trash patrol. Such is the case at Schodack Island State Park near Albany, N.Y. When the state announced last year plans to close the park for three winter months, local residents banded together and lobbied the state to let them assume responsibility for certain everyday operations and keep it open year-round. (Read "Indiana Dunes State Park...