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Will hybrids go mainstream? Detroit economists are skeptical, arguing that it would take $4-per-gal. gas to significantly shift new-car buyers toward hybrids or other more fuel-efficient cars. The new hybrids will probably be priced a few thousand dollars above their conventional cousins; about $2,500 is typical now. (The Federal Government is offering a $1,500 tax deduction this year.) It's unclear whether consumers will want to spend the extra bucks if the fuel savings turn out to be minimal. But there's reason to believe that gas prices may not fall after the traditional...
...sales are expected to more than double this year, to 100,000. That's a tiny fraction of the U.S. market for new-vehicle sales, forecast to be around 17 million this year. But it's still good business. Some Honda and Toyota dealers say customers are paying several thousand dollars more than the sticker price for a hybrid now. "If we could get all we could sell, it would be our best-selling model," says Steve Curtis, a sales manager at Landers Toyota in Little Rock, Ark. A typical scene at a dealership: folks come in, see the Prius...
...thousand undergraduates who live up Garden Street will soon be a dying breed, under recommendations released yesterday that would move the Quad Houses to Allston and shift Harvard’s center from the Yard to the Charles River...
...thousand undergraduates who live up Garden Street will soon be a dying breed, under recommendations released today that would move the Quad Houses to Allston and shift Harvard’s center from the Yard to the Charles River...
...thousand years, the Wazir tribesmen who rule part of Pakistan's rugged western border with Afghanistan defeated invading armies by drawing them into a labyrinth of mountains to pick off enemy troops one by one. Their weapons have evolved from arrows to rocket-propelled grenades, but their deadly tactics have not. The Wazir humbled the Mughals in the 16th century and the British in the 19th and 20th centuries. Last month, it was the Pakistani army's turn. In an April 17 ceremony, Pakistani Lieut. General Safdar Hussain signed a truce with the leaders of the tribal forces, ending...