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...problem is, you will feel better if caffeine is present. A 2006 study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research found that people who consumed energy drinks with alcohol had significantly less dry mouth and headache than those who drank only alcohol. They also perceived their motor coordination to be better--even though it wasn...
...Toyota Motor Corp. has worked hard to demonstrate how American a car company it can be. The company bought naming rights to the Toyota Arena in Houston (and the connected Toyota Tundra garage), built a truck plant deep in the heart of Texas and even joined NASCAR. Now Toyota is really behaving like its Detroit cousins: it's shedding production because of slow sales...
...Production will halt at both the new Tundra plant in San Antonio, Texas, and one in Princeton, Ind. where the Sequoia was scheduled resume production in early November. "The truck market continues to worsen, so unfortunately we must temporarily suspend production," said Jim Wiseman, vice president/external affairs for Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America...
...Toyota employees in Texas and Southern Indiana, as well as at the automaker's motor plant in Huntsville, Ala., which builds V8 engines for Tundra and Sequoia, will continue to be provided various work projects through a program similar to the much-criticized "Jobs Banks" used by Detroit automakers that have supported workers during production cuts. "By using this downturn as an opportunity to develop team members and improve our operations, we hope to emerge even stronger," said Wiseman...
...German Machine After a decade in the doldrums, germany returned in 2003 to its traditional role as the motor of European growth, and has been powering forward ever since, dragging many of its neighbors with it. The German economy grew by 2.6% in the first three months of 2008, its best performance this decade, encouraging more optimistic assessments of Europe's underlying strength. Behind that showing is an export boom, as Germany's traditional industries such as machinery and machine tools benefit from a flood of orders from China, Russia, India and the Middle East. That in turn is driving...