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...needed to feed herds also means fertilizer and pesticide runoff in water supplies, and trucking feed and meat around the country is a big carbon emitter. Wen Bo, China program director with the NGO Pacific Environment, acknowledges that China's cattle industry needs modernization, but says slapping an American model onto the Chinese landscape won't work. "The situation in China is completely different," he says. "In many rural areas, they do not have the infrastructure for environmental treatment." To mitigate damage, Wen says, big companies and governments will need to invest in the communities they're developing, including funding...
That may be about to change. Around the middle of next year, Indian automobile manufacturer Tata Motors intends to launch a new model that will be so inexpensive, the company hopes it will trigger a revolution in car ownership, not just in India but throughout the developing world. The planned vehicle is called the "One-Lakh Car" because, Tata says, the rear-engine, 600-cc, four-door sedan will cost a lakh, or 100,000 rupees. At current exchange rates, the sticker price would be the equivalent of about $2,500. That's $3,000 less than India's current...
...meet demand. "Our aim is to produce the most affordable car in its segment, and because we're doing that well, we're starting to see more affluent buyers and families buying Logans as their second and third cars," says Sylvain Bilaine, managing director of Renault India, where the model launched earlier this year...
...center of gravity was comedian Dane Cook, speaking fiercely into the camera with a former Victoria’s Secret model by his side. The 10 Harvard students standing across the street gawked at her otherworldly long legs, which gave off a plastic luster. She placed her lips near Cook’s stubbly neck. Unlike her legs, his face was clearly unshaven and unmoisturized...
...Wake.” And then the buzz died. From June to August I couldn’t read more than 30 pages of a book before I got bored or frustrated or distracted by another rerun of “America’s Next Top Model.” After all of that brain java, I needed something to settle my stomach (so to speak), and when I pulled my mother’s 1975 paperback edition of “The Portrait of a Lady” off the shelf, I knew I had found...