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...Scrapping schemes can have similar effects. The aim is to pump up weak car sales while at the same time taking older, potentially more polluting vehicles off the road. This seems to be working, at least in Germany. The VDA expects registrations for the first quarter of 2009 to trump those seen in the same period last year. But a more modest $1,300 on offer to French motorists who give up their clunkers hasn't been enough to prevent car sales there from sliding 13% last month. Scrapping schemes in Italy and Spain failed to halt even steeper falls...
...many years of visiting Japan, I've learned not to be surprised by the juxtaposition of modernity and tradition, by an embrace of high-technology that coexists with a reverence for an older nation of cherry blossoms, hot springs and snow on maple trees. In an enigmatic way, this duality has not torn Japanese society apart but given it a remarkable stability...
...Scripps Institute of Oceanography - is considerably higher than the estimates put forth in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) most recent assessment in 2007, which projected a sea-level rise of 18 to 59 cm by 2100. But the IPCC numbers were based on older data and took into account only the thermal expansion of the seas. (Water expands as it heats, so warmer seas rise.) The IPCC did not factor in the potentially far greater impact of melting ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica - Greenland alone has enough ice to raise sea levels by more than...
...sound of a band concerned first and foremost with having fun.But as much fun as it is—plenty, to be sure—it’s difficult to decipher what about the project took three years to create. Yo La Tengo may be one of the older and more sedate artists in indie rock, but the thought of a new vehicle by a band that has delivered so much and so flawlessly can’t help but raise expectations that “Fuckbook” never really satisfies. Taken on the terms that the band...
...affected by the downturn.“We actually got busier,” chef and co-owner Krista Kranyak said of Ten Tables’ Jamaica Plain location. She attributed the uptick in business to pricing, since Ten Tables is positioned to be a more affordable alternative to older sit-down restaurants.Denise A. Jillson, the executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, attributed good business to creativity and dedication on restaurants’ part.She pointed out that many restaurants have been participating enthusiastically in Square promotional events—for instance, some chefs have been willing...