Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Solden is a world-renowned skiing facility that is often referred to as the home of skiing in Austria. With views that are simply breath-taking, the countered rocky mountains are also home to tourists from around the world that visit each week to experience the slopes that are not only challenging, yet also custom-built in the [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Tokyo stocks rose sharply Monday as auto and electronics exporters got a lift from the strengthening dollar, which traded comfortably above 108 yen.
The Nikkei 225 index rose 380.64 points, or 2.7 percent, to 14,354.37.
Traders said investors may chase the market higher. Exporters in particular are benefiting from the dollar’s strength as worries over inflation raise [...]
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Sun Lanka Auto Traders (Pvt) Ltd and Foshan Sanshul Coagent Electronics Ltd last week signed an agreement to market ‘Caska’ car multimedia and Navi System manufactured with Japanese technology and assembled in China investing US$160 million.
With the signing of the agreement Sun Lanka became the sole agent for ‘Caska.
Sun Lanka Director Song Yang addressing the [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Parade at 1 p.m. at the intersection of Flanders Road and Main Street. The procession will go up Main Street, also known as Route 61, and end at the Town Green across from Memorial Hall.
Selectman Thomas O’Neil will be master of ceremonies and resident Polly Kacerguis will narrate the poem “In Flanders Fields.†Rev. Joseph [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
For the Penske Porsches, it was a perfect 1-2 finish after a poor, but ultimately meaningless, start. For Acura, it was an almost awesome American Le Mans Series debut for legendary driver Gil de Ferran, and a better-than-expected third.
For the big, powerful Audis, there was nothing to say but “ouch.”Frenchman Romain Dumas and German Timo [...]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Sumo wrestlers were the main inspiration behind Wii Fit, Nintendo’s latest attempt at getting you off the couch when you play video games.
Because they are so huge, sumo wrestlers need two scales to weigh themselves. Wii Fit’s balance board works kind of like two scales fused together, which, as its designers found, makes it instantly [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
It’s not very often that we see a new product from Nokia with a somewhat classic look.
By that I mean a candybar-type cell phone with the display screen on top and the keypad at the bottom.
The new N82 is one of those increasingly rare products: It is pretty large for a new model, and it [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
What now stands as just another wooded patch of land off Route 539 may soon be home to the state’s first public car museum.
Members of the Vintage Automobile Museum of New Jersey, which for nearly a decade has put on mobile exhibitions of antique and classic cars throughout the state, are poised to open a [...]
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Correction Appended
BERKELEY, Calif.
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*Susan Fisher*
Berkeley, Calif.
Occupation: Retired dentist
Car: �69 Dodge Dart
Date Acquired: 1969
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Susan Fisher in 1955 with her family’s 1929 Ford Model A.
THE soundless saturated images of an old home movie in low definition: It is Christmas morning, 1952. It could [...]
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
CARMAKERS are forever looking for ways to keep customers coming back. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising. They slash prices. They throw in all sorts of options.
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But they are also increasingly turning to co-branded credit cards that give customers points for [...]
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