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...sheet boat in the New Year’s Eve parade, that other embodiment of the promise of a new year untainted by cynicism or disappointment. Before long the cardboard would succumb to the rain and wilt; before long my blockmate would stay up too late, eat unhealthily, neglect her parents, become a stranger to the MAC. But in the interim the boat bounced down the street, and my blockmate’s list, spiky with exclamation points, shone at the corner of her desk...
Part of Detroit's reluctance stems from years of neglect of the car market. Most of Detroit's cars rest on dated front-wheel-drive platforms (the car's foundation), which can't be easily re-engineered into sports cars. To make its Crossfire, Chrysler modified a platform that its sister brand, Mercedes-Benz, is phasing out. Foreign automakers have rolled out profitable models partly because they spent decades investing in platforms that can flex: Audi's TT sits on a modified Golf platform; BMW's Z4 started out with a 3-Series...
...which go to term, as HRL would like. And every year, there are hundreds of thousands of these same babies in America with no place to go, floating from foster home to foster home in an under-funded and understaffed social services department that amounts to mass child neglect. (Florida lost a few kids altogether this year.) While this is going on, HRL has nothing better to do than hang yellow photocopies of fetuses in my hallway...
...It’s absolutely staggering to me,” said Harvard researcher and lead author of the study Robert J. Blendon to the Washington Post about the medical world’s neglect of this safety measure...
...Even now, Pyongyang is sending out mixed messages, brandishing a nuclear threat but also hinting that it would disarm in exchange for a non-aggression pact and other concessions from the U.S. That's not palatable to the Bush Administration, but the alternative is a policy of malign neglect in which North Korea is simply cut off from all aid and allowed to implode - and that's a scenario its neighbors find particularly dangerous. South Korea goes to the polls next week to pick a new president, and the race is too close to call between the more hawkish...