Word: trimly
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While many vehicles today have some features recommended by the scientists, none have them all. Why? Before the latest gas spike, the incentives weren't there. Most automakers claimed consumers cared about fuel economy less than about performance. Detroit's dismal sales have also forced companies to trim costs and cut back on fuel-saving technologies. But the next generation of SUVs and pickups won't guzzle quite so much fuel. GM says its 2007 full-size models will get 9% better mileage. The 2006 Ford Explorer boosts mileage 10%, thanks to improvements like a six-speed transmission. Chrysler...
...Hurricane Katrina, the Energy Information Administration forecasts that homeowners will pay an average of $378 more this year for heating oil, up 32% from last year. Natural gas will cost $350 more, up 48%, and heating a home with electricity will run homeowners $38 more, up 5%. To trim 3% to 5% from your bill, set the thermostat at 68º in winter, 78º in summer. Padding the attic insulation can save 30%. Switching old heating and cooling appliances for those with the government-backed Energy Star label could cut energy bills...
...Tamae Watanabe became the oldest woman to scale Everest, at 63, and 71-year-old Minoru Saito recently became the oldest person to sail solo around the world without stopping. "I thought my life after 70 was finished," says Saito, as weathered as a tugboat and as trim as a battleship. "But I could still keep doing things my way, with complete freedom." During his 244-day voyage, the modern-day Ulysses scared off a pirate with a flare gun and subsisted on rations, the occasional flying fish, blood-pressure tablets and rainwater. "It was no problem," he says. "Better...
...sure sign of Hamas's emergence from the shadows is its new media office in central Gaza. Thickset, bearded men lean against the walls, watchfully. The only furniture in the otherwise empty suite is a brand new desk, behind which sits Sami Abu Zuhry, a trim 38-year-old history Professor recently named Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip. Abu Zuhry rejects suggestions that Hamas wants to take over Gaza now the Israelis are gone. "We don't want control," he says. "We want elections...
...Princeton continues to trim the fat off of its slightly plump grade distribution, we hope Harvard is wise enough to avoid the same diet. Last Monday, Princeton Dean of the College Nancy W. Malkiel announced that the college was halfway toward its final goal of systematically reducing the number of A’s doled out by professors. The percentage of A-range grades issued by Princeton’s faculty fell from last year’s 46 percent to the current 40.9 percent, less than 6 percent shy of meeting the long-term goal of 35 percent...