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...exemption that is already drawing fire is the so-called "German loophole," which allows automakers selling fewer than 400,000 vehicles in the U.S. to meet a weaker EPA standard. All the German automakers - Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen - will qualify for the exemption as well as Mitsubishi, Subaru, Kia and more exotic brands such as Ferrari, Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover...
...will unveil an “undergraduate study” in the Jefferson Building that offers amenities for a specialized audience: including a stainless steel wall on which individuals can mount heavy magnetic objects and a table that provides access to pressurized air. These will come in addition to standard features like chalkboards, a projection screen, and a coffee machine.“It’s really an open space that’s meant to conform to whatever interesting ideas the undergraduates have,” said Physics professor John Doyle, who served as chair of the design...
...with company founder Steve Herrell, Stanett said.Today, Herrell’s Development Corporation is run by Steve Herrell’s former wife Judith Herrell, who recently tried to convince Stanett to sign a written franchising agreement that set royalties at 6 percent. She said that it was a standard contract with lower royalties than major ice cream chains, and that she hoped there were no hard feelings between Stanett and herself.“He marches to the beat of his own drummer,” she said. “If he decided to remain a Herrell?...
...Attempts by feminists to chastise other women for failing to assume a suitably feminist outlook have by and large failed. Take, for example, Naomi Wolf, author of “The Beauty Myth.” The phrase describes the idealized standard of beauty whose realization is upheld in Western culture as the end-all task of being female. Yet, despite the myth’s devastating implications—self-loathing, eating disorders, bodily mutilation via plastic surgery—no woman wants to be patronized into giving up eyeliner and lipstick. Nor does she want to be told...
...Granted, Wolf’s militant excoriations have significant cultural resonance, even to women who aren’t convinced that their stilettos mean they’ve done something wrong. Despite our society’s emphatic assertion that an objective standard of beauty exists, the concept is actually grounded in female inadequacy. Regardless of how many hours, dollars, and brain cells women spend, there will always be an un-pluckable hair, an un-erasable wrinkle, and an un-toneable ounce of cellulite to eliminate. The pursuit of beauty is eminently frustrating (and eminently profitable) for the very reason...