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...worst thing about the Prius is that it has given people in Hollywood a way out of the natural order of status competition. If you want your friends and associates to think you're more successful than you are, you should have to waste $130,000 on a Maserati. These days, no one owns any other kind of hybrid, because you can't tell from a distance that they're hybrids. If GM made a car shaped like a crying planet, it could give our government all its money back. (See the history of the electric...
Ellison said he was particularly concerned by reports of unauthorized students lying to campus officials about their status...
China says the lifting of the embargo is more symbolic than anything else - it would signal a European acceptance of the country's status as an equal player on the world stage. The weapons ban has certainly not prevented China from becoming a military power - its annual defense budget officially stands at $70 billion, although the Pentagon believes the real figure to be twice as high. Rather, Beijing sees the embargo as outdated and insulting, considering the other nations currently subject to an E.U. arms ban are all pariah states - Congo, North Korea, Iran, Burma, Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe...
...parting of ways, a final end to the pretense of keeping their deathbed promise to Imam Khomeini. The incident reportedly involves the wife of Alireza Beheshti, a close aide of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the presidential candidate who was declared the loser in June to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Beheshti has the status of a living martyr for the opposition and is enduring his second period of detention since the election (he has survived a heart attack in prison). He is also the son of one of the primary architects of the Islamic revolution. According to the website, Beheshti's wife informed Rafsanjani...
...this commendable plan and will instead turn astronauts into paying passengers aboard yet-to-be developed commercial vehicles or Russian rockets. Meanwhile, China will be forging ahead in its effort to go to the moon. If we fall behind in this new space race, we will forfeit our status as the hegemon of exploration and technology...