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...unusual for the typical American car owner to have a 5-year-old vehicle with 100,000 miles on it. At this point the car will not have a warranty and generally it is owned outright by the driver. Car owners are waiting much longer before trading their old autos in for new ones. A generation ago, it was not unusual for middle class Americans to buy a new model every two or three years. That is no longer an option even with car prices and incentives as attractive as they have ever been. The American consumer is frankly...
...Kiviat, acknowledges that in these difficult times, plain old jobs, not stocks or real estate, are our most valuable assets. Sean Gregory writes about a new minimalist model for the shopping experience, and Bryan Walsh looks at how the suburbs are reimagining themselves now that the economy can no longer support the massive shopping centers that used to define them. Krista Mahr in Hong Kong reports on how the crunch is fueling a new kind of international trade: countries with money but little arable land are renting huge tracts from countries rich in soil but poor in cash. Alex Perry...
...easily browse and share reviews on various products and services. The pair spent their entire summer last year working with an incubator program, a venture capital firm that focuses on very early stages of company development. Now that the site is up and running, Ramaswamy and Kosslyn no longer need to devote their full time to the project...
...Ager expresses a similar sentiment. “I get worried when adults interfere too much in student life and if we’re providing all these different resources for the students in a way it all of the sudden no longer makes it entrepreneurial,” he says. “I don’t think that the college should feel this obligation to provide resources to students. I think that we should make sure that we don’t create an environment where it’s not possible for students...
...intelligence officials carried out early-morning raids across Punjab and Sindh, arresting more than 300 lawyers and political activists. All major entry points to the capital, Islamabad, have been blocked by either large containers or manned checkpoints. As human-rights groups denounce the moves, political observers wonder how much longer the already shaky government of President Asif Ali Zardari can hold...