Chinese Maker To Sell $7,000 Cars In Mexico
A Chinese automaker, First Automobile Works, will begin exporting cars to Mexico by year’s end, looking to tap into the market for inexpensive cars....
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Lebanese Man Sentenced In Bomb Attempt
A court sentenced a Lebanese man to 12 years in jail for last year’s failed attempt to bomb German trains and acquitted three other defendants, judicial officials said....
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Tokyo Seeking A Top Niche In Global Finance
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G.E.’s Chief Faces Investors After Disappointing Quarter
General Electric’s chief executive, Jeffrey R. Immelt, delivered a mea culpa to investors and analysts, after its recent earnings report prompted a steep sell-off....
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China Chooses Injections Instead Of Bullet For Executions
China is to expand the use of lethal injections for condemned prisoners, to replace its current method of execution by a bullet to the back of the head....
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Science News

A Long-Dry California River Gets, and Gives, New Life
2008-01-13 05:30 - Water is flowing in the Lower Owens River nearly 100 years after Los Angeles diverted the river into an aqueduct and sent it 200 miles south.

Court Allows Scientists to Work at NASA Until Trial Over Background Ch...
2008-01-13 05:30 - The United States Court of Appeals allowed the scientists to continue working until the question of their privacy challenge can be addressed at a full trial.

In Life’s Web, Aiding Trees Can Kill Them
2008-01-12 06:01 - When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.

Paul MacLean, 94, Neuroscientist Who Devised ?Triune Brain? Theory, Di...
2008-01-11 06:01 - Dr. MacLean developed an intriguing theory to explain the brain’s evolution and to try to reconcile rational human behavior with its more violent side.

Any Other Bright Ideas?
2008-01-11 05:32 - Compact fluorescents are efficient, but many people have not embraced their glow.

City Council Passes Bill for Recycling of Plastic Bags
2008-01-11 05:31 - The New York City Council overwhelmingly passed a bill requiring large stores and retail chains to collect and recycle the plastic bags they give to shoppers.

Digital Tools Help Users Save Energy, Study Finds
2008-01-11 05:30 - Giving people the tools to monitor and adjust their electricity use lowers their bills and could reduce the need to build new power plants, according to a government study.

F.T.C. Asks if Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent
2008-01-10 05:30 - Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million in 2007 on carbon offset credits, but where exactly is that money going?

In Greenland, Ice and Instability
2008-01-09 06:01 - A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the world’s most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate.

In Professor’s Model, Diversity = Productivity
2008-01-09 06:01 - In the long-running debate on affirmative action, Scott E. Page, a professor at the University of Michigan, is a fresh voice.


 
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