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...other major cities, the motive is largely commercial. Police say more than half of the thefts are committed by organized car rings that chop up stolen cars and resell the parts or ship them across borders. (See following story.) Overall, about a quarter of stolen cars end up in chop shops, where they are taken apart and resold for as much as triple their value whole. Two skilled choppers with power tools can cut up a car from hood to trunk in three minutes. The demand is huge: a thief can steal a $10,000 Nissan Sentra, strip...
...would be built. As German investigators sifted through the documents, GM officials said federal prosecutors in Detroit were also probing charges that Lopez had absconded with corporate secrets. Lopez, once heir-apparent to GM's North American car business, had helped develop the Opel project for GM but jumped ship after the company decided to put his dream plant in Hungary rather than in his hometown of Amorebieta, Spain. Volkswagen had wooed Lopez with promises to build his | plant in Amorebieta, but the dismal state of European car sales forced VW chairman Ferdinand Piech to suspend plans for the factory...
...political and business arenas, eventually producing a genuine multiparty democracy of ideas rather than influences. But just how fresh are the new winds swirling around the Diet? Are Hata and company born-again politicians destined to shape the post-cold war era? Or are they rats fleeing a sinking ship? Hata and all his colleagues were members of the Takeshita faction of the L.D.P., which was close to the center of all the corruption scandals in recent years...
Sample 18th century ship fare, admission $3-$6, under 5 free...
...Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum...