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...cities, where people use cars mostly to commute to work and run errands around town. General Motors is testing its electric model, the Chevrolet Volt, in Denmark, and plans to sell between 100,000 and 200,000 Volts a year in the U.S. from 2010; the car would switch to regular fuel once the electricity runs out. Renault will roll out its ZE (for zero emissions) electric car in Europe in 2011, and Tenenbaum estimates that by 2015, auto companies will have sold about 2.5 million electric cars in Europe - about 15% of all vehicles driven on the Continent...
...when the South was thick with Democrats, there was a saying that Southern Dems were so loyal they're rather vote for a yellow dog than a Republican. As the party moved to the left, forcing moderates like Billy Tauzin and Jimmy Hayes (both former Blue Dog leaders) to switch parties, one member joked that the remaining moderates had been choked blue by the left - thus rechristening the group Blue Dogs. For a while their numbers dwindled but in recent years, they've seen a resurgence, gaining 11 members in the 2006 elections and another two in special elections earlier...
...been outscored 76-26 so far this season.Prediction: Penn 30, Dartmouth 10PRINCETON (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) AT COLUMBIA (0-2, 0-0 Ivy)I went out of my way to abuse Columbia no less than three times in last week’s column, so let me switch gears and say something nice about the Lions: they’re not as bad as Dartmouth.Princeton, while no longer in its championship form of 2007, is a competent if mediocre squad that should have little trouble managing a victory in this one.Prediction: Princeton 21, Columbia 13YALE...
...like those already in place at Stanford and Yale. The change no doubt comes as a relief for incoming 1Ls daunted by the prospect of competition with some of the brightest—and most cutthroat—students in the nation. But beyond merely assuaging freshman fears, the switch to pass/fail promotes the pedagogy and overall mission of the Law School as well. In any academic setting, letter grades have the power to create perverse incentives. Students are discouraged from academic exploration for fear of sullying their pristine GPAs and are pressured to tailor their comments and papers...
Obama now leads McCain 50%-43% overall, up from 46%-41% before the parties' conventions a month ago. Obama's support is not just broader but sturdier; 23% of McCain supporters said they might change their mind, while only 15% of Obama's said they could be persuaded to switch...