Word: less
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...gallon of gasoline pumps more than 25 lbs. of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But because of a loophole in the 1975 fuel-economy law, today's trucks are allowed to meet a laxer standard on miles per gallon than cars: 20.7 vs. 27.5 on average. The difference mattered less two decades ago, when light trucks--including sport utes, minivans and pickups--represented less than a fifth of new-car sales. Now they account for nearly half. "The industry was claiming it didn't have the technology to boost fuel economy," says Jason Mark, a transportation expert with the Union...
Kieu Viet Lien started at less than zero. She was born in prison in 1974. Her mother had been jailed as a Viet Cong agent. They were not released until April 1975, when North Vietnamese forces overran Saigon. Lien was schooled in the city, renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the victors. When she was 18 she got lucky: her application for a visa to study fashion in Australia was accepted. After three years in Melbourne, she went to Canada in 1996 for two years and then spent a year in Paris. There she fell in love with French style...
When Hugh Grant was caught in history's most infamous act of automotive congress, ELIZABETH HURLEY stayed resolutely silent. So it seems a bit odd that Hurley, 35, would open the floodgates now, telling Jane magazine that sex with ex-boyfriend Grant was "less than adequate," and that "we haven't had sex since we split up. I don't miss it." Juicy as the quotes are, Hurley insists the words never passed her lips. "The quotes regarding mine and Hugh's sex life bear no resemblance to anything I've ever said," Hurley said in a fax from...
...loved being a whore, and that offends people." Norma Jean Almodovar, 49, head of the International Sex Workers Foundation for Art, Culture and Education, has made a career from such bluster. But being an activist for prostitutes is less lucrative than her previous job--impersonating a bawdy Julia Child for her johns. (That was one specialty...
...asked for their idea of a union leader, most folks might describe a paunchy guy who has the morals of a Mafia capo but with less colorful language and a cheaper suit. Or they'd think of the least representative members of organized labor, professional athletes. Strikes in the NBA, the NFL and Major League Baseball offer the spectacle of pampered millionaires demanding still more millions of dollars from their clubs and, ultimately, their fans. They have also deprived the American male of his constitutional right to get drunk watching large men collide with one another...