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...making the country by far the biggest market in the world for these runty runabouts. Offering affordability-most are in the $10,000 price range-and impressive fuel economy of around 20 km per liter, Hello Kitty-cute kei could play a big role in the future of Japanese transport. "It's a good bet that minis are going to be an increasing part of Japan's auto market," says Christopher Richter, Tokyo-based auto analyst for investment bank CLSA...
...AUTOMOBILES 106 Number of Chinese cities that will limit the use of private vehicles for a day this fall in a bid to promote environmental awareness and mass transit 1,000 Number of private cars added to the streets of Beijing every day. Transport accounts for 20% of China's energy consumption...
...finishes. Sewage will be treated in tanks that process waste without harmful chemicals. Household water will be heated by solar panels, which is expected to reduce electricity use--and electricity bills--30%. And whenever possible, local building materials are used, which reduces the need for gas-guzzling trucks to transport things from far away...
...really assassins? She seemed pretty scared." By then Lozano said he realized that Sgrena had just been released after a month in captivity and that the intelligence officers, Carpani and Calipari, had just secured her liberation and were escorting her to the Baghdad airport where an Italian C-130 transport plane was waiting to take her back to Italy...
...others to see Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors (the war to end all wars!), and the heartbreaking irony of victims unaware (one letter from a Jewish transport car to Poland: "We've stopped at Auschwitz, we have to get out. It's a big factory town with lots of smokestacks everywhere...