New York Times :: China Set to Act on Fuel Economy
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> The Chinese initiative comes at a time when Congress is
> close to completing work on a major energy bill that would
> make no significant changes in America's fuel economy rules
> for vehicles. The Chinese standards, in general, call for
> new cars, vans and sport utility vehicles to get as much as
> two miles a gallon of fuel more in 2005 than the average
> required in the United States, and about five miles more in
> 2008.

Isn't The OC on tonight?
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 9:10 AM

New York Times :: Beijing's Walls Come Tumbling Down
Article

> The garden contained some wonderful signs in
> English. One identified an artificial mountain with
> a temple on top as the ''Hill of Piled Excellence.'' Not
> far away was a sign that in the United States would
> have said, ''Do Not Touch.'' Here, it read, ''A single
> act of carelessness leads to the eternal loss of beauty.''

How true.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 8:47 AM

New York Times :: Flags Versus Dollars
Article

> But the right opened an increasingly effective
> counterattack, with a strategy that included using
> racially charged symbolism to get Southern whites
> to vote against their own economic interests. All
> Mr. Dean was saying was that Democrats need to
> understand and counter this strategy.

As my friend Jackie said, "Glad that someone out there has a brain and is using it."
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 10:21 AM

New York Times :: There's a Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex
Article

> But focus groups are plagued by a basic flaw of human
> psychology: people often do not know their own minds.

Or one of its greatest features, from a social integration point-of-view.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 9:40 PM