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...American Honda Motor Co. in Torrance, Calif. Ellis manages the rare $600-a-month leases (including free hydrogen fill-ups) for the FCX Clarity. "Knowing how to integrate these new technologies into existing lifestyles and then building new infrastructures to make it work is the trick," says Ellis. "It took a hundred years to create the gasoline infrastructure; this will be much faster...
...When Madoff's Ponzi scheme finally collapsed in 2008, an SEC Enforcement attorney testified that it took only 'a few days' and 'a phone call to DTC' to confirm that Madoff had not placed any trades with his investors' funds," the report said...
...leader Yukio Hatoyama wasted no time preparing for a transition of government. In the historic Aug. 30 general election, the Japanese people - about 70% of eligible voters cast ballots - ended a half-century of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Hatoyama's party took 308 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives, 12 seats shy of a two-thirds majority that would have allowed the party to single-handedly pass bills rejected by the upper house. The LDP won 119, slightly more than a third of what it had before Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolved...
...track meet in Pudukkottai, where she returned after losing her medal. "It was difficult but now finally I feel O.K.," she says with a laugh. The state government of Tamil Nadu awarded her a television set and a cash prize as a show of support after Doha. Soundarajan took that money - a little more than $30,000 - and in 2007 started a sports academy in Pudukkottai. About 68 students now train there, including two who she says won medals at the Chennai marathon. "I like to train children who have not much money but lots of talent," she says...
...black metal sign serves as a makeshift tombstone, sticking out of the orange soil. But unlike many nearby graves, there are scattered rose petals over Agha-Soltan's site. As a visitor took out a camera, a man - perhaps an undercover security agent or merely an overzealous citizen - emerged and angrily shouted, "No pictures...