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Automakers are scrambling for more small and fuel-efficient cars and hybrids as sales of once popular trucks and sport utility vehicles evaporate under the weight of rising fuel prices. "This was a watershed month," says Jim Farley, Ford Motor Co.'s group executive for marketing and sales, following news that the company suffered another huge drop in trucks sales in May. Trucks and sport utility vehicles accounted for 47% of Ford's sales as recently as February but only 34% in May, as consumers opted for compact and subcompact passenger cars. General Motors is adding a third shift...
...industry where a two-month supply of vehicles is considered the norm, Toyota supplies of key hybrid models are being measured in single digits, says Toyota Motor Sales vice president Bob Carter. About 20% of all Toyota Camrys sold in the U.S. are now hybrids, making them more popular than models equipped with a V6 engine. (Meanwhile, Toyota is sitting on 100-day supply of unsold pickup trucks...
...were no significant differences in the average GPA across the disciplines. Those in the traditionally larger concentrations were less satisfied with their departments than their peers in smaller concentrations. Earth and planetary sciences topped the list, followed by visual and environmental studies. Economics and government, two of the most popular concentrations, were near the bottom...
...country of 15 million on a world map, or to know that it sits atop about 100 billion barrels of oil and is one of the world's biggest producers of both wheat and uranium, but anyone in the West who pays even the most cursory attention to popular culture will almost certainly, thanks to Borat, have heard of Kazakhstan. Then again, the image of the country created by the movie couldn't be more appallingly crass. But it's all relative. Kazakhstan's neighbors include: Uzbekistan, which regularly makes news for its repressive crackdown on dissidents; Turkmenistan, which...
Classics professor Kathleen M. Coleman's Culture and Belief 17: "Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games"—adapted from Historical Study B-06—will probe why institutionalized violence was so popular in ancient Rome...