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...long reign of Ford and Chevrolet as the best-selling car and truck brands in the U.S. Toyota finished the year with U.S. sales of 1,957,575 vehicles, while General Motors' Chevrolet brand sold 1,801,131. Even if the 113,904 vehicles Toyota sold under the Scion name were subtracted from the Japanese automaker's totals, Toyota still beat out Chevrolet. As recently as two years ago, Chevrolet held a commanding lead. (Read "The Bailout Report Card: From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Carmakers' Bleak Year-End Numbers | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

...anything really characterizes Clarel, it was how intensely he loved people,” said Antoine’s girlfriend of three years at Harvard. She asked that her name not be used because of the sensitive nature of discussing Antoine’s death...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather House Senior Remembered for Love of People and Music | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...hold elsewhere in the Americas-exactly where and when remains uncertain. A ceramic pot discovered in Guatemala that dates at least as far back as the 10th century depicts a Mayan puffing on tobacco leaves bound up with string. (The Mayans may also have handed down the object's name: their term for smoking, sikar, likely led to the Spanish cigarro, from which the cigar takes its name.) When Columbus stumbled upon the Americas in 1492, he also discovered tobacco; the New World's natives smoked cylindrical bundles of twisted tobacco leaves wrapped in dried palm or corn husks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cigar | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

Palin, Sarah • yet another descendant of is given a ridiculous name •yet another patently false statement - "Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time" (really, they're doing all that during the New Year's break?) - is insistently made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...days later, was called for 30 days "miluim" service [with his military unit] in the West Bank. And he was sitting in the worst junction in the West Bank. And he says, "When I look around me 360 degrees, nobody loves me. Settlers, Kahanes, rabbis, mullahs, Hamas, Palestinians, you name it - they all hate me. And he told me, "Here I was sitting on a corner one day; it was my break time, and I was drinking coffee with a friend of mine, and out of the valley climbed an old Arab. He was very bent forward and frail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy? | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

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