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...seemed like anywhere you looked last week, there was a major car company in crisis. Britain's MG Rover was the worst off. On Friday, with its already-meager sales sliding, its cash depleted and its last hope for an 11th-hour rescue by a Chinese buyer seemingly dashed, the four Birmingham businessmen who owned the outfit handed it over to administrators from accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Some 6,000 workers at Rover's Longbridge factory in Birmingham fear for their jobs, despite British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown racing to the plant, promising...
...Logan, that is aimed at a completely new audience: middle-class consumers in places like Eastern Europe and Latin America. "Renault still sometimes produces dogs that don't sell, but it's innovative, and people want to buy its cars," says consultant Schmidt. It may be too late for Rover, but finding the right mix of quality, design and marketing is critical to keeping the industry's biggest brands on the road...
...decade that I worked on Bellow's biography, I often rode around Chicago with him in his olive green Range Rover. It was a joy to see the city through his eyes. One day we drove over to an apartment on the Northwest Side where he'd lived as a child, and loitered in front of a burgundy-brick three-flat with a concrete stoop and a tiny yard surrounded by necklace-like chains. We stood on the cracked sidewalk as if contemplating a shrine...
Tony Blair emerges from a Range Rover next to the village hall in Highnam, just outside Gloucester near the Welsh border, and bounds up to a dozen locals there to greet him. His handshake is athletic: coat open, big reach, pivoting from the waist, legs spread apart. He works out in Downing Street two or three days a week and exudes vitality - no longer the boyish charm of his 1997 campaign, but still, in the words of a longtime aide, "surprisingly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" in light of how things have been going lately. His party's six-point...
...methane is more often produced by living organisms. If bacteria still live under Mars' surface, this could be their calling card. Opportunity and Spirit can't detect bacteria directly, but they're not finished unearthing secrets. Spirit's discovery of an intact meteorite was totally unexpected, and the rover should get a dramatic panoramic view in a few weeks when it reaches the crest of the Columbia Hills. "I have no idea how much longer [the rovers] will last," says Squyres. "So you plan for the long term--but each day you drive like there's no tomorrow...