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...first Karma roadster early next year. It is getting $528 million in low-interest, government-guaranteed loans to refine its plug-in hybrid-drive system, originally developed by its partner Quantum Technology of Irvine, Calif., with grants from the U.S. Department of Defense. Using that technology, the Karma can travel for 50 miles on lithium-ion batteries before the gasoline engine turns on to act as a generator, Fisker says. The preliminary price tag for the Karma...
...Nast family, Gourmet had been able to attract fashion and perfume ads when times were good. But as the economy tightened, non-food advertisers didn't see the magazine as vital to their campaigns, while packaged-good companies didn't see a luxury book as key either, and travel advertising, another of its pillars, fell away...
...seat Olympic Stadium, scheduled for the South Side's Washington Park - would be temporary, a strategy intended to avert the Olympics' worst legacy, expensive venues that sit idle for years. And then there's the Obama factor: the leader of the free world calls Chicago home and will personally travel to Copenhagen to pitch the IOC. (See 100 Olympic athletes to watch...
...disputes with the central government. Such hostages were rarely harmed until this June, when nine foreigners were kidnapped - including two German women and a South Korean woman whose mutilated bodies were later discovered by shepherds. After the attack, the government effectively stopped granting permission to foreigners - including journalists - to travel anywhere but the capital, Sana'a, and the coastal region around the port city of Aden. (See pictures of conflict in Yemen...
...ride. She also feels that the idealized beauty in such photos is giving people false expectations of how the world should look - and how they should look as well. Because digitally enhanced photos are often used in mass-marketing campaigns for everything from soft drinks to luxury cars to travel packages, Boyer says the images are gradually leading to a standardization of what is considered beautiful - and by extension, what isn't. (Read "In the Paris Métro, Even Dead Legends Can't Smoke...