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...joining forces. Chrysler is in dire straits, considered the closest to collapse of the Big Three. The $4 billion in federal loans it received last month to help keep it afloat, and the additional $3 billion it hopes to obtain in March, carries the stipulation that the company move quickly to find ways to produce smaller, more fuel-efficient models, which have long been Fiat's bread and butter. "A Chrysler-Fiat partnership is a great fit," said Chrysler chairman Bob Nardelli in the joint communiqué. "It creates the potential for a powerful new global competitor." Nardelli pointed...
...instance, suggests Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale Prevention Research Center. What's more, says Katz, "regardless of the variation of gut flora in the population, the entire population is getting heavy. So probiotics might tweak one's personal vulnerability to obesity, but they would not much move the big dial [on the obesity epidemic]." Still, as anyone fighting the numbers on the scale knows, every little bit helps - even something a little as a bacterium...
...Inaugural dais, Jimmy Carter limited the religious slots at his 1977 swearing in to two clergymen, provoking protests from both Jewish and Greek Orthodox groups. Ronald Reagan narrowed the list even further in 1981, bringing his personal pastor from California to deliver both the invocation and benediction. That move prompted fierce criticism from religious circles, and in 1985 the Inauguration once again included Protestant, Catholic and Jewish religious leaders...
...while Cheney will leave the Vice President's quarters at the Naval Observatory in Washington, he isn't going very far away: Cheney will move to a house in McLean, Va., that he and his wife have just finished building (by design, it is within a few miles of both sets of grandchildren). He is expected to write a book that draws on what one adviser described as "his 40 years of experience" in Washington; it will almost certainly, the source said, be an extended reflection on the appropriate exercise of power in times of peace...
...fact, among the last to leave. We were asked to wait in the entrance for a few minutes, following which we ran one at a time to the vehicle parked across the street. My cousin drove frantically. We didn't know where we were going, but we had to move out of the area. Then we began to hear the bombs fall behind us. We kept moving forward. The car shook left and right, perhaps from the explosions, perhaps from speeding. I didn't know. All I could think about was my home. (See photos of the violence...