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Katrina dealt another knockdown�punch to Detroit. Ford and General Motors rely heavily on full-size SUVs for profits, and sales of those vehicles were softening even before the latest surge in gas prices. "We have some dealers we haven't been able to contact," says Ford spokesman George Pipas, who estimates that 40 Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealerships in southern Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were affected by the storm. Katrina forced Nissan to close its assembly plant in Canton, Miss., 211 miles north of New Orleans. When the plant reopened, employees reported they were having a hard time finding...
...Place the chicken in a deep pot in six cups of water. Add the other ingredients. Bring to a boil at medium-high heat until the chicken is cooked all the way through (a minimum of 30 minutes, depending on the size of the chicken). Reserve the broth for the mole sauce. If using a whole chicken, remove it from the broth after cooking. Cool and cut into serving sized pieces. Reserve at room temperature until the mole sauce is ready...
...menu of additional courses down students’ throats is not the best way to improve work and college preparation for the masses, even though it may work at “science magnets” for select gifted and motivated students. Instead, educators should focus on reducing class size, improving teaching, redesigning curricula, and providing internships and after-school programs that will truly enrich a student’s experience...
...young children with autism have unusual features. To begin with, they tend to be too big. In studies based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and basic tape-measure readings, neuroscientist Eric Courchesne at Children's Hospital of San Diego showed that while children with autism are born with ordinary-size brains, they experience a rapid expansion by age 2 - particularly in the frontal lobes. By age 4, says Courchesne, autistic children tend to have brains the size of a normal 13-year-old. This aberrant growth is even more pronounced in girls, he says, although for reasons that remain mysterious...
...carry hypermarket near the airport. "It used to be hard to get credit, but now banks are lining up to lend to us," says Leonid Bazerov, who built a shopping mall in an abandoned theater in the mid-1990s and has expanded it to almost 10 times the original size...