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...bank. According to the company, the campaign is sending viewers to its showrooms in a dismal economic environment. "Business stinks," says Toyota marketing spokesman Joe Tetherow. The company's U.S. sales dropped 23% in October. "Our goal with the ad is to generate floor traffic, and it's doing just that. The criticism keeps the deal out there, but even in a negative context, it can be a positive. I'm sorry that everybody didn't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Saved by Zero': The Toyota Ad That Won't Stop | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...would be quite unfortunate to graduate with a Harvard degree, get an impressive job that lets you rake in cash, or save lots of people, but not be able to get there each morning because of the traffic that consumes most American cities. It would be even less auspicious if you tried to save money by living right outside the city, and while sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic going to work one day, the bridge you were on collapsed. Yet gridlocked traffic, increasingly long commutes, and sub-par roads and highways are becoming an accepted part of everyday life...

Author: By Dana A. Stern | Title: Rebuild from the Roads Up | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...them? They were both vying to be servants of the people, and until Americans begin to care about our transportation networks, neither will our representatives. In the meantime, our aging, overextended, grandfather of an infrastructure system will continue to rot, and we will continue to spend mindless hours in traffic, unless of course the bridge collapses from under...

Author: By Dana A. Stern | Title: Rebuild from the Roads Up | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...Family Values The Hospicio De San Jose is a hushed haven from central Manila's crushing heat and traffic. Inside the orphanage's dormitory, Sister Socorro G. Evidente points through a window to Pauline, a 2-year-old napping in the dark, thumb in mouth. When she was a week old, Pauline was left by her mother, who said she was going to work in Dubai. She never came back. Some mothers, Evidente says, "do not even bother to send any money for their kids ... The children grow up feeling like they're really abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Motherless Generation | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...When he was there installing it, he literally stopped traffic,” Jillson said. “Cameras suddenly appeared. It was instantaneous...

Author: By Bora Fezga and Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Academics, Street Art Merge in Harvard Square | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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