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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  15 hours ago

• Bjorn Lomborg: Not mankind’s defining crisis

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 172
  The Munk Debate on climate change Nobody doubts that George and Elizabeth and everybody else here have their hearts in the right place. That’s not the question. The question is whether George, in his experience of the people who are suffering in northwest Kenya, is saying they are suffering because…
  19 hours ago

• GM Hits The Fast Track: Saab Sold Or Shuttered By December

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  When the Saab sale to Koenigsegg fell through last week, a variety of sources lay the blame at GM’s feet — specifically, the way those feet were dragging. That same snail’s pace approach to business may be partly responsible for Fritz Henderson’s abrupt dismissal yesterday. But if a new statement from General ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Big List of Fuel Economy: November 2009

  
  Long-Term Road Tests — Authority: 149
  Below are the fuel economy numbers for November 2009. Weve listed the best, worst and overall average tanks. As usual, a couple of cars are out on the road or unavailable at the time of this writing. Ill continue to add them as they come in and let you know in the comments.   Car ...
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• Big List of Fuel Economy: November 2009

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Below are the fuel economy numbers for November 2009. Weve listed the best, worst and overall average tanks. As usual, a couple of cars are out on the road or unavailable at the time of this writing. Ill continue to add them as they come in and let you know in the comments.
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• 2008 G8 GT: Strong Money for a Muscular Car

  
  Long-Term Road Tests — Authority: 149
    It hurts to sell a great car like our 2008 Pontiac G8 GT at this time of year. You can almost sense that the shoppers have their minds on other things. We even had one guy email us several times saying he wanted to buy it when it came up for sale. I contacted him but, alas, his employment situation had ...
  2 days ago

• 2008 G8 GT: Strong Money for a Muscular Car

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  
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• Anteing Up

  
  Climate Change — Authority: 415
  If you play poker you know that all the players have to ante up with a stake before each new deal.  You have to “feed the kitty” - or you don’t play.  Perhaps not coincidentally, parties that have an interest in a particular project, enterprise or, in the case of COP 15 , addressing the looming climate ...
  2 days ago

• 2011 Mustang, Lexus vs. Ford Parking, Volt Chief Talks: Today At High Gear Media

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Spanning the range from mean to green, today’s news at High Gear Media has a bit of something for everyone. Over at GreenCarReports, we have an interview with Tony Posawatz, vehicle line director of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. He answers five pointed questions and gives us an idea of what’s going on behind the ...
  3 days ago

• Decoding an Ancient Computer: Greek Technology Tracked the Heavens (preview)

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 172
  If it had not been for two storms 2,000 years apart in the same area of the Mediterranean, the most important technological artifact from the ancient world could have been lost forever. The first storm, in the middle of the 1st century B.C., sank a Roman merchant vessel laden with Greek…
  3 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  4 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  4 days ago

• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
  6 days ago

• Denmark Passes “Anti-Riot” Law 12 days before UN Climate Negotiations.

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 575
  Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed “anti-riot law”, less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen, strips people of ...
  6 days ago

• What Explains Past Climate Change?

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 172
  Roughly 1,000 years ago, Europe enjoyed several centuries of balmier average temperatures. Dubbed the "Medieval Warm Period," it was the last time before the present that agriculture could flourish in Greenland. This era also shows yet again that changes to natural systems can drive local climate change–and ...
  1 week ago

• Pontiac Rolls into History Books, RIP

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 130
  This Thanksgiving week, General Motors has officially ceased production of it’s Pontiac brand of vehicles as a result of the bailout by the U.S. government.  Not only could the car maker not meet it’s financial obligations but, the fact is that the car’s brand no longer had the appeal it once did and sales ...
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• Business and COP15

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 172
  Ahead of Copenhagen’s COP15, some business leaders stood out by standing up for efforts to combat climate change. As reported by the Copenhagen Climate Council , global business leaders assembled in Copenhagen at the World Business Summit on Climate Change. They issued The Copenhagen Call, a concise statement ...
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• Car And Driver’s 2010 10 Best Cars

  
  AutoBrag Blog — Authority: 154
  For the 28th running of Car And Driver’s annual 10 Best competition , the winners were cars that were not available for the 2009 competition, and those with significant updates. All winners fell under  base-price cap of $80,000 and be on sale in January 2010. 2010 Car and Driver 10 Best Cars: 2010 Audi S4 ...
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• U.S.: Environment & energy

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 137
  NYT Environment & energy ; Environmental Defense Fund: THE CASE FOR CAP AND TRADE PDF ; Energy Push Spurs Shift in U.S. Science (WSJ) The Obama administration’s push to solve the nation’s energy problems, a massive federal program that rivals the Manhattan Project, is spurring a once-in-a-generation ...
  1 week ago

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