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Latin professor Kathleen M. Coleman gets around on a machine she calls the Verginius Volvo Invictus. (Named after the friend of a famous Roman senator, Pliny the Younger...
...respondents in the economics department, eight said they owned luxury cars—one of the highest percentages. And of the 13 East Asian studies faculty who responded to the survey, eight drove Asian-made cars. Overall, Toyota was the most popular make, followed by Subaru, Honda, Saab, and Volvo...
...mildly disturbing [June 4]. How can people not care about how much it costs to fill their car's tank? What about hardworking Americans like me who live check to check and simply cannot afford to spend $55 to $75 to fill up? I drive a 1989 Volvo, which gets 24 m.p.g., but I live far from work. I get less than a week's commute out of a tank of gas. I'm paying a lot of money that I can't really spare just...
...Iraq. The AEI has identified dozens of energy companies active in Iran's oil and gas fields and has also pointed a finger at such engineering, transportation and communications giants such as Siemens, Daimler-Chrysler and Volkswagen of Germany, Renault and Peugeot Citroen of France, and Ericsson and Volvo of Sweden...
...which is based at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and includes companies and organizations from all parts of the world, adopted a consensus statement that could serve as a template for an international agreement. Green-technology leaders like General Electric, insurance leaders like Swiss Re, automobile firms like Volvo and innovative Chinese and Indian firms all endorsed it, as did many of the world's prominent scientists...