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...gallon by 2020. Levin's alternative would give cars until 2022 to reach 36 miles per gallon, and light trucks (including SUVs, the only automobile category American companies still dominate) until 2025 to reach 30 miles per gallon. "They're trying to knock a decent standard off the road and replace it with a clunker," said Frank O'Donnell, head of Clear Air Watch. "We've heard crying wolf for three and a half decades from Detroit...
...brush-covered hillside beside a long-abandoned factory partially destroyed by years of Israeli air strikes against the base. Some of the fighters wore checkered headscarves over the faces, others clutched rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Deeply suspicious, they took up firing positions in the rocks either side of the road and scanned the approaches intently...
They're not alone: Bravo, A&E, TLC and other channels have real-estate-oriented series, while HBO debuts the real estate satire 12 Miles of Bad Road next year. In FX's drama The Riches--about a con artist who moves to a gated community and passes himself off as a real estate lawyer--the buying and selling of land comes to stand for American dreams, appetites and origins. Creator Dmitry Lipkin says the pilot was shot in an exurb 40 minutes from New Orleans. "Everything around it was swampland," he recalls, "and in the middle...
...ROAD WARRIORS: Gen Xers could not get enough of Dave Matthews Band in the '90s, when the group released two major live albums from its summer tours. Its albums aren't chart-toppers now, but DMB still has a strong following. Its '07 tour kicks off in July...
...result of what will always be known as the Waldheim Affair, Austria finally got beyond its mythic self-image as the first victim of National Socialism and faced up to its own share of responsibility in Hitler's assault on human values. Waldheim was an ambiguous marker on that road to a broader truth...