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...other performance-raising medications, to improve productivity. College kids have been doing it for years. About 7% of U.S. university students report having taken stimulants "nonmedically" at least once, according to a 2005 study of nearly 11,000 students. On some campuses - primarily private, élite schools - a full quarter of students admit to nonmedical drug use in the past year, mainly in an attempt to improve grades...
Sales of new vehicles dropped in December to the lowest level since the early 1980s, as carmakers turned in a terrible fourth quarter despite aggressive use of incentives. Embattled Chrysler showed the worst decline of all, with sales tumbling...
...overall, passenger cars outsold trucks, sport-utility vehicles and minivans for the first time since 2000, according to George Pipas, sales analyst for Ford Motor Co., as consumers reacted to last year's spike in gasoline prices. Truck sales made a modest comeback during the fourth quarter, in part because fuel prices had dropped and truck buyers (a group that includes many small-business owners) had better access to credit than buyers of more fuel-efficient passenger vehicles, automakers...
...dark year is now over, but automakers don't yet see the dawn. Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., says he expects sales in the first quarter of 2009 to be similar to those in the fourth quarter of 2008 - dreadful. While the outlook remains too uncertain for any consensus to emerge on full-year 2009 sales, carmakers are hoping to see some signs of life this spring. "We could see year-over-year comparisons improve (i.e., not be down so much!) starting in April 2009 because the market really collapsed in April 2008," says Rebecca Lindland...
...minimum in a 3-1 victory. Saturday’s game also provided senior goaltender Brittany Martin with another chance to reestablish her previously dominant play in goal. Once again filling in for junior starter Christina Kessler, Martin flirted with a shutout until two minutes remained in the third quarter. Bobcat junior Janine Duffy ended those hopes when she pushed in a shot with 2:12 to go. Martin was otherwise impenetrable in the net, making 25 saves in the game. “She stepped up,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “She?...