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...constantly alarmed by how little my fellow students know about the Boston area. What direction is Logan Airport from here? What differentiates Allston from Brighton, Somerville from Arlington? Where would you look for Portuguese food, and how do you get to Walden Pond? The Unofficial Guide may provide some clues, and help you pinpoint an Ethiopian restaurant off the Orange Line, but wouldn't it be better to get lost...
...other side of the "Hate" coin, "Love and Rockets" returns with a strong first issue. Now would be the time to jump onto this battleship in the small pond of "alty" comix. Speaking from personal experience, it can become very difficult to pick up in the middle of a Hernandez brothers story...
...respectable 16% to $191.3 billion, while earnings hit a record $6.3 billion-a 17% jump. But hidden amid that thicket of good news is a thorny problem: Wal-Mart's European operations aren't reaching the levels of growth needed to make the company's expensive leap across the pond pay off. "Wal-Mart has not yet succeeded in markets that it cannot drive a truck to," says London-based investment bank WestLB Panmure in a recent analysis that concludes the retailer hasn't successfully replicated its American business model in markets not adjacent...
That would be mounted gradually. To an itinerary of Spartanburg, S.C.; Birmingham and Talladega, Ala.; and Hickory and Asheville, N.C.; NASCAR added, over time, Long Pond, Pa.; Sonoma, Calif.; Joliet, Ill.; Brooklyn, Mich.; Dover, Del.; and Loudon, N.H. The fans were attracted, in this mature iteration of NASCAR, by the thunder of the cars, which have been able to reach 190 m.p.h. for 40 years now, and also by a host of stars every bit as human and accessible as some of the early characters, if better scrubbed. Richard Petty won 200 races. David Pearson beat Petty head to head...
...DaimlerChrysler, the world's fifth largest automaker, is already one of the shakiest corporate mergers in recent memory, and in this global age a living warning of the dangers of merging across the pond. The company announced a $512 million loss in its U.S. operations (which, when they were Chrysler, were actually rather profitable) in the third quarter last year, and that figure is expected to double in the fourth quarter. The company has blamed the high cost of launching new vehicles and an increasingly competitive U.S. market...