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...promised to keep 16% of combined U.S.-Canada output north of Detroit, but unless its new models can win market share from Ford and Toyota, it will continue its painful slide into oblivion. Also, as GM continues to shrink at home, it can trim a proportionate amount of production in Oshawa without breaking its promise to the Canadian government. Early on July 8, GM reported a 34% decline in June sales, to 176,571 cars and light trucks, in its domestic market. Year-to-date sales have collapsed 41%, to 954,356 vehicles...
...76th name to be added to the "cornice of fame" at the National Stadium in the Peruvian capital Lima - the 39th woman to receive the honor. She has thus widened even more the advantage for women athletes in a country where men take sports very seriously but women win medals and championships. "It is a strange phenomenon. There are few countries in the world where the most respected athletes, the role models, all happen to be women," says Congresswoman Gabriela Perez de Solar. (Check out a story about how Title IX revolutionized U.S. women's sports...
...there is the matter of scandals - many scandals. Several top players, including the former national captain, were removed from the men's team last year after allegedly partying all night just days before facing off against neighboring Ecuador in what was a must-win match to stay in the running for the World Cup. Ecuador, predictably, ran circles around Peru...
Another unexpected female star is Sofia Mulanovich, the first Peruvian (and Latin American) to win an Association of Professional Surfers' world championship. Her name was engraved on the National Stadium a few years back. Mulanovich is also highly popular, but following in her footsteps is limited by a number of factors, including the basic necessity of being close to surfing waves...
...California politics, momentum is growing for an open primary system, in which the two top vote getters in the primary, regardless of party, would face each other in the general election. Proponents believe it would loosen the grip of partisan ideologies and make it easier of moderates to win elections. In addition, a redistricting reform won narrow approval last November and proponents of good government keep trying to lengthen the state's term limits on legislators...