Word: noxiously
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...SUVs aren't cheap to begin with, but they may soon be getting a lot more expensive in France. Environment Minister Serge Lepeltier is pushing a new green-tinged plan this month that, beginning next year, would tax automobiles according to their size and the amount of their noxious emissions. Under the scheme, the biggest 4x4 would be subject to a surcharge as high as €3,500, while purchasers of small, clean cars would receive a rebate. The plan is controversial in the French government and still needs final approval. But it reflects growing official sentiment against SUVs, which...
...that all of a sudden these shortages will disappear overnight in 2006," says Joseph Jacobelli, a Hong Kong-based regional utilities analyst for Merrill Lynch. Moreover, most of China's capacity expansion will come in the form of coal-fired power plants, which, aside from their noxious environmental impact, suffer from crippling supply problems. (The mainland is also aggressively expanding the amount of energy produced by its nuclear power plants from 4,468 megawatts in 2002 to an estimated 36,000 megawatts in 2020, but this energy source is still expected to account for less than...
...arrival of My Life will doubtless cause several weeks of hemming, hawing and projectile pontification. It will be a brief return to the noxious '90s, a brouhaha for which not many people are nostalgic. Already, parasitic blasts from the past--people like Larry Klayman and David Bossie who made their reputations at Clinton's expense--are issuing press releases announcing their availability for comment. John Kerry cannot be pleased, even though Clinton hopes this latest Comeback Tour will remind the public of the depredations of those who are attacking Kerry now. As for the White House, two weeks of Clinton...
...more of these weird, dead-yet-alive fish come rushing out of the ocean, overwhelming the city. Killer sharks roam the streets. Back home in Tokyo Tadashi's scientist uncle recalls hearing of a military experiment that went down at sea - a mutated germ that turned living creatures into noxious gasbags. These were attached to mechanical legs powered by the gas, and the two halves formed a symbiotic relationship. Soon the creatures find their way to Tokyo in search of new hosts, including Kaori, now infected by the germ. Her body slowly becomes a paralyzed, pustulated, corpulent emitter of foul...
...CCTV building is a sensitive commission; it's the headquarters for the government-controlled media operation of a one-party state, an odd project for a man committed to ideas like spontaneous connection and untrammeled movement. Koolhaas has been criticized for cozying up to one of the most noxious departments of the Beijing power apparatus. In his defense, he insists that China is evolving into a freer society. "The Chinese are putting in place the legal and political infrastructure that will enable them to manage their transitions," he says. "We did not go ahead before we established...