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...investors who want independent analysis of corporate environmental performance, Innovest, a research firm based in New York City, assigns bond-style ratings. A report on the automotive industry gave high marks (AAA) to Toyota and Honda for their work in setting environmental standards for their factories--and their suppliers. Porsche (CCC) trailed all 13 competitors that Innovest studied, partly because of a poor showing on fuel-economy standards...
...first solution, a few years ago, was battery-powered electric cars, like Ford's cute little Think model. But electric cars have less range than gas-powered cars, and it's hardly convenient to recharge the batteries. The newer gasoline-electric hybrid cars, like the Toyota Prius and Honda's hybrid Civic, recharge themselves and go much farther on a gallon of gas than do conventional cars, but they aren't pollution free...
...van—along with a hybrid Toyota Prius with a tree seemingly growing on the roof and an RV with charts of military spending—were driving along the Harvard Square leg of a national “parade” to create awareness of government spending priorities and get more people involved in progressive politics...
...five Deputy Presidents, as well as its Minister of Public Works, never made it home for lunch. In fact, he never made it to the street. Witnesses later said that two gunmen had been waiting outside the ministry compound's gates for half an hour. As Qadir's green Toyota Land Cruiser nosed its way out, the men, dressed in the clothing of Qadir's home province, leaped out of the bushes and opened fire. Qadir's driver floored the accelerator as bullets sliced through the windshield and panels of the car, hitting Qadir in the head...
...force the internal collapse of Saddam's regime, just as it put the Taliban to flight. But there's a big difference between taking on Iraq's large, well-equipped and relatively modern army defending its own towns and cities and fighting the Taliban's ragged riflemen on their Toyota pickups. Nor is there a battle-tested Northern Alliance equivalent already in the field able to take and hold territory from Saddam's forces. And the Taliban had no access to chemical or biological weapons. Whatever their differences over tactics, Washington's factions agree that once the U.S. commits...