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...Detroit The Big Three Get Plugged In Perhaps hoping to turn attention away from their financial woes, carmakers unveiled a slew of new hybrid and electric vehicles at the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. BYD, a Chinese car company, was even on hand to present its own green models. While Toyota showed off its 2010 hybrid Prius and Honda made a splash with its 2010 hybrid Insight--both will hit showrooms this spring--many of Detroit's models were concept cars not intended for production anytime soon. Still, the prototypes from General Motors, Chrysler and Ford emphasized...
...snow, and the Yana Indians of California, whose men and women speak different dialects. She has an engaging passion for rankings, as if all earthly fauna were competitors in an endless evolutionary Olympics. Our sense of taste, for example, outperforms a pigeon's and a tiger's (it turns out that tigers can't taste sweetness--sorry, Tony) but is crushed in turn by that of a lowly catfish, which has taste buds not just in its mouth but all over its body...
Historical comparisons can be treacherous. Notwithstanding our current fears about the future and our corresponding eagerness to turn the page, 2009 is not 1933. Yet there are echoes. At F.D.R.'s request, a simple prayer service was added to the Inaugural program, conducted by a clergyman who had voted for his opponent. Endicott Peabody's support of Herbert Hoover did not, however, preclude him from asking the Lord to bless his former Groton pupil. Across Lafayette Square from St. John's Church, a bone-weary Hoover seethed with resentment over his successor's refusal to cooperate during the dreary four...
...about niceties when millions of people are losing their job? But the recession has given rise to an epidemic of foot-in-mouth disease, with incidents ranging from the awkward to the deeply wounding. For example, how do you ask a co-worker if she survived the layoffs, or turn down a relative's request for a loan? "Being respectful and considerate is always important, especially in these trying times," says Post, the great-granddaughter-in-law of etiquette guru Emily Post. (Watch Peggy Post answer your etiquette questions...
...often divisive stands on issues such as gay marriage and abortion. Since the founding of the Moral Majority in 1979, the GOP has managed to link political and religious conservatives in a surprisingly successful electoral strategy based on these “wedge” issues. But in turn, the rise of the Religious Right has deepened the gulf between secularists and believers...