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Hear the Music. Create a downloadable playlist for your next road trip. AmplifiedJourneys.hk, a site created by stereo company Harmon/Kardon, assembles playlists that are customized to your route. If you're embarking from New York City, for instance, the site would suggest "Money" by Human League and, if you're leaving the city via the Saw Mill Parkway, the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There." Simply plug in the start and end points of your trip, and the site will generate a list of tunes you can purchase from iTunes, along with MapQuest-style driving instructions...
...public. The bedrooms, drawing room and dining rooms of the house that inspired Dead Man's Folly have been carefully restored to their 1950s state by the National Trust. If you'd like to stay overnight, you can even rent one of two cottages on the grounds. Greenway Road, Galmpton, near Brixham...
...calls for a mass bailout. And Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs meetings of the Eurozone's finance ministers, dismissed appeals by wannabe members to relax entry criteria for single European currency. U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown - clearly eying French President Nicolas Sarkozy - denounced protectionism as a "road to ruin". And Sarkozy himself testily denied being protectionist but then accused eastern Europe of putting the entire E.U. at economic and political risk...
...liters from 10% to 5%. The measure, designed to get Chinese to buy smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, has had an immediate impact. January sales of small cars jumped 19% compared with the previous month, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Also boosting buyer interest: Lower road taxes and fuel prices, which are set by the government. (See TIME's picks of the 50 worst cars of all time...
...said new data on exports, consumer spending and inventories were the main causes of the dramatic change in its estimate - isn't done revising: there will be one last estimate of fourth-quarter GDP on March 26, then what are called benchmark revisions a couple of years down the road. The revision trend is clearly downward, and the 1982 mark is likely to be overtaken...