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...exhaust-caused lung damage, being behind the wheel in many parts of the E.U. is a hazard to mental health. The frustration caused by sitting with the engine in neutral or first gear in a flashy metal box built to travel up to 200 km/h certainly contributes to road rage, the syndrome whereby Mr. Nice jumps out of his car as Mr. Nuts. The white paper calculates that each day 7,500 km of E.U. roads are like arteries clogged by cholesterol, at best sluggish, at worst blocked to standstill. Over the course of a year, that comes to more...
...year in cities hardly known for their flash, such as Tucson, Ariz., and Topeka, Kans. Many buyers are waving bids around without even inspecting the property. And money is flooding into McMansions and vacation homes, reminiscent of the cash that rushed into technology-stock funds that were all the rage a few years back. So the bubble police are on full alert, sensing another NASDAQ-like flameout...
STEVE EARLE has never been the sort of country singer who gigs at Republican conventions. He has done time for drug possession, and his music is too rough around the edges to slip into mainstream radio. But now some Nashville conservatives have gone from Earle indifference to rage over his song John Walker's Blues, which is on his upcoming album, Jerusalem. Written from the perspective of the so-called American Taliban, the lyrics include "We came to fight the jihad/ And our hearts were pure and strong." Earle said he doesn't "condone what [Walker] did." But a Nashville...
...Hamas leaders in Gaza were secretly talking to senior officials in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Palestinian officials close to Arafat say the Palestinian leader wanted to calm the violence because he felt it was undermining his global stature. The Hamas leaders were considering a brief truce, but the rage caused by the death of Shehadah and the civilians around him ended that prospect. Hamas will struggle to find an organizer as good as Shehadah. But his immediate legacy remains the network he built in the West Bank, and it is primed to take an awful revenge on Israelis...
...scorn which enveloped me when I heated up a can of Progresso soup (because I was hungry and didn’t have any traditional breakfast foods at hand) and ate it at 10 in the morning. There was general chaos. Faces contorted into fear, confusion and finally rage. People were coming from far-away parts of the office to look. They would say things like “Good GOD! Soup? How can you—but it’s only—what is WRONG—have some DECENCY!” I have been hearing...