Word: perring
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...plant in Georgia will employ 1,200 workers and aims to build 60 vehicles per hour. The first vehicle out of the plant will be the 2011 Kia Sorento, a midsize crossover vehicle that combines features from a passenger car and a sport-utility vehicle. "Creating stylish and safe vehicles loaded with value is a core philosophy for the Kia brand," crows Byung Mo Ahn, chief executive of Kia Motor America...
...burns more fuel in an hour than the average American family uses in an entire year. And each gallon of fuel costs many more times the cost of fuel at your local gas station, given the cost of transporting [it]. It may end up costing $100 or more per gallon. When you think about the fact that every day in Iraq something like 1.5 million gallons of fuel are delivered by truck convoy to U.S. forces, it's a staggering investment of human and financial resources. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...findings, published in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, are based largely on survey data available on some 100,000 Americans who were born between 1915 and 1923. Overall, these populations had roughly the same rate of heart attack year to year - about 200 heart attacks per 1,000 people - when they were studied some 60 years later. But among the subset of people born between October 1918 and June 1919, when the flu pandemic was at its worst, the number of heart attacks increased more than...
...most dynamic and rapidly growing region in the world over the past decade, developing Asia has attained a new level of prosperity. From China to India, the region's per capita income has more than doubled since the wrenching Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. Since 1990, over 400 million fewer Asians are living in poverty on incomes of less than $2 per day. On the surface, the region has much to celebrate on the long and arduous road to economic development. Many believe the Asia Century is now at hand. (Read "Fortress Asia: Is a Powerful New Trade Bloc...
...salons required parental consent in the form of a phone call or written statement. Only 5% said they would not allow a teenager to tan. And of the establishments that allowed teen tanning, a mere 11% adhered to the FDA guidelines and said they would cap visits at three per week. "The tanning industry makes its profits off selling a carcinogen to teenagers and young adults. In that sense, it is similar to the cigarette industry," says Dr. Martin Weinstock, a professor of dermatology at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School and an author of the study...