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/ 11 January 2006
Cup holders that chill drinks, interior lights that turn into flashlights and sound systems that hook up to iPods are just some of the new perks car makers are unveiling at this year’s Detroit auto show. Americans are spending more and more time on the road and many treat their vehicles like a second home.
United States auto makers were on the defensive at the Detroit Auto Show this week as Asian rival Honda captured the prestigious car and truck of the year awards and disgruntled auto workers protested outside. "We can’t buy what we build with a 60% pay cut," said Michele Carriere (46), who works for auto-parts supplier Delphi.
Hybrid vehicles were the toast of the Detroit auto show this month, but many are warning that the segment will see limited growth. "I don’t think that hybrids will occupy the majority of the market, because the hybrid price is still higher than the customer’s value," Nissan chief operating officer Toshiyuki Shiga said.
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/ 8 December 2005
Scalding chickens alive is the wrong way to prepare meat for a McNugget, animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said on Wednesday. Peta and socially responsible investment firm Trillium Asset Management issued a shareholder’s resolution calling on the fast food giant McDonald’s to require its suppliers to switch to a humane system of slaughtering chickens.
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/ 23 November 2005
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, there is nothing left in Rick Undesser’s turkey barns but feathers and dirt. The slaughter began 10 days before Thanksgiving. A team of 24 hauled 350 birds a day from the barns to the butcher shop where they were slaughtered, plucked and packaged in air-tight plastic.
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/ 28 October 2005
The road from New Orleans to Chicago has been a long one for bartenders Webb Rhodes and Fritz Voght. Two months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their city and destroyed their way of life, the longtime friends are still scrambling to find work and a place to live. It hasn’t been easy.
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/ 27 September 2005
A United States military panel on Monday convicted Private Lynndie England on six out of seven counts of mistreating Iraqi prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad. England became the public face of the scandal after photographs of the soldier holding a leash attached to a naked prisoner were shown around the world.
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/ 23 September 2005
A mass exodus from the deadly threat of Hurricane Rita emptied towns along the Texas and Louisiana coastlines on Friday, amid frantic last-minute preparations for the second super-storm in a month. The port city of Galveston, scene of the worst United States natural disaster when a similar storm hit 105 years ago, was virtually empty on Friday.
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/ 8 September 2005
A horrific glimpse of Hurricane Katrina’s wrath emerged on Thursday, as more than 30 patients were reportedly found dead in a suburban New Orleans nursing home overcome by floods. The grim discovery is likely the first of many awaiting rescuers scouring ravaged areas for bodies.
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/ 1 September 2005
United States authorities stepped up efforts to empty the hurricane-stricken city of New Orleans on Thursday, sending in thousands of troops to confront rampaging looters. President George Bush vowed ”zero tolerance” for armed gangs and other profiteers from the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina.