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...package - which could easily be doubled to $100 billion - would have five components: • A green bailout for the automakers, with a quid pro quo: they would have to increase fuel-efficiency standards in their cars at least 4% per year and make major investments in new battery technology for plug-in hybrids. • A green-infrastructure fund to make existing public buildings more energy-efficient and provide homeowners with tax breaks to do the same. "This could help revive the construction industry," Hendricks says...
...Tank (Nonso Anozie), an Anglo-Afro bruiser who's fond of Merchant-Ivory dramas; Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy), a gang member who unexpectedly plights his homoerotic troth to the flummoxed One Two ("What exactly is it you want to do to me, Bob?"); and, best of the lot, Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell), a junk rocker who has faked his own death to sell more CDs. It's a star-making part for Kebbell, and he's a delight to watch, giving it the creepy swagger of American-style bravura acting. (Disappearing into the crowd are the two actual Americans imported...
...CatwalkGenius.com helps hoi polloi bankroll upstart fashion designers. British documentary filmmaker Franny Armstrong raised more than £450,000 ($815,000) to finance--and work full time on--The Age of Stupid, which she hopes will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. People who gave 20 quid ($35) got a credit on the film's website; those who gave £5,000 ($9,000) and up will get a percentage of the profits, if there...
...move by China to ease up on Internet control temporarily isn't particularly surprising, argues Moses, and says more about the failings of the IOC than China. It also is something that will come with a clear quid pro quo, he says: "It is not the Chinese government backing down in the face of international pressure. This is Beijing doing the IOC a big favor - but only for the time being, and with the clear expectation that when the next problem happens the government will be able to deal with it with a free hand...
...Putin may have a compromise up his sleeve: If Russia's priority is to avoid Ukraine and Georgia being drawn into the NATO fold, a concession on the missile defense system may be part of the quid pro quo envisaged by the Russian president...