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...request that's getting harder by the day. In his second hastily arranged meeting with the media in five days broadcast live nationally, Toyoda said yesterday that the corporation, a source of Japanese national pride which has gone unfathomably awry over the last several weeks, is recalling 437,000 2010 Prius and other hybrid models (plug-in Priuses, Lexus HS250h sedan and the SAI) around the world because of a computer glitch in the braking system. Over 220,000 of the cars will be recalled in Japan. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
That's an ideal plan, since it's much easier to prevent invasive species from infiltrating a new home than it is to eradicate them after the fact. And any plague of foreign species will likely become harder to quash because of global warming, as nonnative plants and animals are often better able to adjust to changing climates than indigenous species, according to a study published last week in the journal PLoS ONE. "We have to recognize that we are the ones changing the natural world, and we have an obligation to do it responsibly," says TNC's Lowenstein...
...course, Google’s moral high ground benefits from the fact that it sells a high-concept unmanufactured product. It may be a little harder for a manufacturing company like Nike to make a similar move, given the fact that many such companies employ low-paid factory workers who earn pennies a day. For example, a 2008 National Labor Committee report called into question the new Sesame Street dolls, which were allegedly made under sweatshop conditions. Just recently, the NLC released a report on the abject conditions in a Reebok sweatshop in San Salvador. According to the report, workers...
...Marja could be brutal, with belts of IEDs believed to be buried along all major approaches to the town. Unlike earlier battles over towns and villages further east, where many Taliban are from Pakistan, the enemy in Marja is largely local, which will further complicate the fight. "It's harder to separate the enemy from the people," a Pentagon planner says, "when they are the people." (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...played singles this season yet, so I was a little nervous coming out,” Gridley said. “After I lost the first game, I slowed down a little bit and just started playing more consistently and then was able to build up and hit harder and harder and more winners. You just have to be patient, work your cross-courts, hook them off the court, and then wait until the court is open to go down the line...