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...repair shops will do the job for you - and consumers are lining up. Typically customers order the kits directly from one of a handful of makers, who in turn ship the components to an installer near you. At least for now, an after-market conversion is the only option if you really want to rev up your fuel economy - short of ditching your car altogether and plunking down $109,000 for the all-electric Tesla Roadster or settling for Zap's barely street-legal three-wheeler. "I wanted something real today," says Cox, 50, who works as a database administrator...
...carefully worded statement leaves Tata the option to change his mind if the protests subside. He has much less room to maneuver around the company's promise to launch the Nano by the end of this year. Tata has staked his reputation on successfully producing and selling the fabled world's cheapest car, which will sell for about $2,300 - a price low enough to turn India's millions of motorcycle and scooter drivers into car owners. "This is an iconic project," says Abdul Majeed, who follows the Indian auto industry as a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Chennai. "The whole...
...show worked well enough for the new star, Grimes. "My mom kinda brought me up on the original," she says. "It was mother-daughter bonding night." Of course, when Beverly Hills, 90210 debuted, Grimes was only 1. Apparently, bonding via syndication is also an option...
...militant separatists in far-flung provinces - the Games went spectacularly smoothly. Now they are over, and China stands at a critical juncture in its tumultuous modern history. Many scholars and analysts say that Chinese society has reached a point where maintaining the societal status quo is no longer an option...
...Obama wins, scenario No. 2 becomes a live option. Democrats have a history of overreaching when they win huge majorities. Franklin Roosevelt did so after his re-election landslide in 1936; so did Lyndon Johnson after 1964. Obama could as well. With big majorities in the House and Senate, he'd probably take another run at universal health care, which is what helped prompt the Gingrich revolution in 1994. He could hike taxes and impose tough new environmental regulations on business. He might preside over a messy withdrawal from Iraq and perhaps see Iran complete development of a nuclear weapon...