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...ensuing rise in gas prices and drop in sales underscored another weakness. Although gas-eating SUVs found a sweet spot in the U.S., for Detroit to assume a world in which gas prices would remain below $2 a gal. was asinine. In Europe, gas had long sold for more than $5 a gal., and tax policy ensured that it would stay there; the growing BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China - were driving up demand. Detroit's response was to lobby furiously against increasing fuel-economy standards instead of building more-efficient SUVs...
...Harvard College Democrats voted to throw the weight of their organization behind the candidacy of Flores—herself a former member of the Dems—choosing to support her over the four other candidates vying for the UC’s top spot...
About the only bright spot with the current housing crisis is that the median cost for housing is dropping. The Greater Fort Lauderdale area shows a drop in its median condo prices, from $160,000 last year to $115,000 today, according to the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Lauderdale. That's good for those who have money in their pockets or access to credit. While homes in the area may be more affordable, some potential buyers are having trouble coming up with the money to purchase them. But for now, Florida's governor would be happy to help homeowners...
...first-year student who comes out of a Georgia O’Keefe exhibit and says, “I can’t tell these paintings apart, they’re all flowers,” ethnic minorities can be amazed that the specific superficial differences they spot easily are not so obvious to others...
State crews will monitor the Breakers reef, a popular diving spot, next week, weather-permitting, in order to curtail private divers from entering the damaged area and flipping and moving corals. Those divers may believe they are doing good but such movement may actually further damage the reef and inhibit government restoration efforts. Sponges should be left to recover alone; but damaged brain, maze, great star and other hard corals will have to be cemented in placed at their old location. Such hard corals are so sensitive and take decades to grow back, at a rate of a few centimeters...