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...September 2007 for model year 2008 vehicles. The new rules may trim the city-driving mileage estimates of some vehicles by as much as 12%, EPA officials acknowledge. "EPA's new fuel economy sticker ensures American motorists won't be stuck with higher-than-anticipated charges at the pump," says EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "Consumers can get more bang for their buck by considering fuel use while shopping for cars and trucks - saving money on refueling costs while helping protect our environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Miles-Per-Gallon Estimates to Finally Stick | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...bemused but not quite on board yet.In between acts, Brener and Kollmer performed brief skits together, including a sketch involving a spit-take in which Kollmer was thoroughly doused, and a sketch involving a gross misunderstanding that featured Kollmer, pants around his ankles, hopping around with a penis pump and a roll of toilet paper.The next few performers got mixed responses from the audience. Performers Matthew K. Grzecki ’10, Tyler E. Spindel ’07, and Daniel Millstein, a freshman from Tufts, however, couldn’t quite get the show off the ground.Spindel is responsible...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Stand Up Show Very Risqué | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...Hizballah security teams - identifiable by their combat boots, black fatigues and beards - that gathered Friday morning in the suburbs of Beirut didn't need much of a pep talk to pump themselves up for their massive demonstration in Lebanon's capital. "If the leadership says march, we march; if they say die, we die," said one, who called himself Bakkir. Still, if they needed any reminder of why they were hitting the streets to bring down Lebanon's government, Bakkir and his buddies could look around at the bomb craters and crushed concrete from this summer's war with Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hizballah's Rally Highlights the Government's Weakness | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

Geny Cassady's daughter Madison was born last November with a congenital heart defect and needed surgery at five days old. While she was hospitalized, nurses encouraged Cassady to pump and store breast milk for her daughter's recovery. But that time never came - Madison died of a pulmonary embolism less than two weeks later. For a month, Cassady couldn't look at the containers in her freezer because the sight of the unused milk was too hard to bear. "It wasa very difficult time," she says. Her husband, Bill, finally poured them down a sink drain while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Breast Milk to Good Use | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...setters just can't catch a break. Ticket prices are rising, and U.S. airlines, trying to pump up their bottom lines, keep stripping amenities. So book a flight overseas: international carriers are rolling out unique luxuries that could offer solace to the weary traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In-Flight Incentives | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

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