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...still trails Toyota and GM in global car sales, but its Japanese and American rivals have been hit harder by weakened consumer demand. Global car sales fell 18% in the first half of 2009. But the decline at VW was modest, with car sales falling just 5% to 3.1 million vehicles. Toyota sold 3.56 million vehicles, a decline of 26% from a year ago. GM, hot on Toyota's heels as the U.S. car maker emerges from bankruptcy, sold 3.55 million vehicles worldwide, down 22%. "VW is in a very strong position and has managed to ride out the economic...
...become common, and therefore less compelling as a fashion," says sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann. "When the local baker takes off her top despite her 60-year age and sagging breasts, the gesture loses its social distinction as one of youthful beauty." Some note that the return to more modest costumes is in part a response to rising concerns about skin cancer. (Read "In France, a Government-Led Revolution in Entrepreneurship...
...survey titled "Women and Nudity" by polling agency Ifop captures the mood. It found that younger French women not only have a problem with nudity - but actually consider themselves prudish. Fully 88% of the women questioned qualified themselves as pudique - a term that can mean anything from "modest" or "prim" to "priggish." And they aren't joking. Though 90% said they get naked with their husband or partner, 59% avoid being nude around their children. Sixty-three percent said they refused to undress around female friends; 22% said they considered a woman in her underwear already naked. (See TIME...
...injuries sustained during a July 9 protest - has sharply divided the population here between the dwindling numbers who defiantly still head to the streets and the vast majority who watch from the sidelines. Among the demonstrators, by now whittled to mostly students or recent graduates and those living on modest incomes, there are frequent mentions of democracy, human rights, the release of political prisoners, even the overthrow of the entire regime. But taken as a whole, it is hard to tell what their objectives are, particularly since the opposition transcends thwarted presidential contender Mir-Hossein Mousavi's Green Movement platform...
Gates told reporters "there is at least some chance of a modest acceleration" in the pace of U.S. troop withdrawal...