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...Still, car ownership is likely to continue to rise in countries such as India for the same reasons that Western cities with great mass transit are bumper-to-bumper anyway: people buy cars for convenience and status. Kant of Tata Motors says he's sick of going to parties in India and in the West and listening to "these rich people ask about congestion and pollution and global warming. I ask them, 'Sir, will you stop using your car and start taking the bus?' People should be thanking us our cars are small. Let all those SUVs in America...
...Wilson stayed with the Crimson another season, he might have been able to improve on those numbers and, consequently, his draft status...
...felt like all of London's under 18s had set their MySpace status to offline for the day and ditched their cyber universe for something more real. All around us were teens bumping into virtual friends for the first time and it was this atmosphere that gave the day such a comical yet unique quality. One festival-goer expressed the reassurance and safety she felt in comparison with other festivals she had been to that were for all ages, and said she'd chosen the Underage Festival as a cheaper alternative...
...despite ethical qualms - which have prompted some chefs to renounce it altogether - rich Londoners can't seem to get enough of the black stuff. Stuart Lyall, head chef of the Fishmarket restaurant sums up its status allure: "Demand for beluga, our top seller, is still very high... people have not been deterred from ordering it. It's still a very decadent choice...
...Every few years, however, some uppity editorialists take it upon themselves to challenge the status quo. How productive is it, they ask, to stubbornly ensure that every minority—visible or otherwise—has an insular campus organization all its own, safely cordoned off from the rest of the student body? A brief campus-wide comic opera ensues, as the officers of the maligned cultural groups write angry letters expressing their collective disappointment at their peers’ lack of sensitivity. The matter is hotly debated on email lists for a few days, until the dozen...