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...rely heavily on full-size SUVs for profits, and sales of those vehicles were softening even before the latest surge in gas prices. "We have some dealers we haven't been able to contact," says Ford spokesman George Pipas, who estimates that 40 Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealerships in southern Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were affected by the storm. Katrina forced Nissan to close its assembly plant in Canton, Miss., 211 miles north of New Orleans. When the plant reopened, employees reported they were having a hard time finding enough gas to make the commute, says Nissan spokesman Fred Standish...
...Porter said.Although the USTR is not collegiate racing, Johnson and Kovacs would potentially join Porter in New York for what would be some of Harvard’s last practice of the year.No matter where they go, however, it will be difficult to replicate the choppy nature of the southern waters they will encounter in South Carolina.“It’s kind of tough because nationals are just a ton of current out in the open,” Porter said. “Basically, the conditions are really hard to simulate anywhere in the New England...
Disneyland is supposed to be "The Happiest Place on Earth," but Liang Ning isn't too happy. The engineer brought his family to Disney's new theme park in Hong Kong from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou one Saturday in April with high hopes, but by day's end, he was less than spellbound. "I wanted to forget the world and feel like I was in a fairytale," he says. Instead, he complains, "it's just not big enough" and "not very different from the amusement parks we have" in China. His seven-year-old daughter Yaqin disagrees, calling...
Disneyland is supposed to be "The Happiest Place on Earth," but Liang Ning isn't too happy. The engineer brought his family to Disney's new theme park in Hong Kong from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou one Saturday in April with high hopes, but by day's end, he was less than spellbound. "I wanted to forget the world and feel like I was in a fairytale," he says. Instead, he complains, "it's just not big enough" and "not very different from the amusement parks we have" in China. His seven-year-old daughter Yaqin disagrees, calling...
Although the thought of Iran’s acquiring nuclear weapons is undoubtedly terrifying, another more imminent potential catastrophe deserves our attention. Before moving to Boston, I lived in southern Vermont, approximately five miles from the sleeper cell that is Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant...