Results tagged “generalmotors”

• President Obama’s China agenda
• Obama’s China Town Hall: Smiley faces and happy thoughts?
• Free Aung San Suu Kyi, Obama tells Myanmar PM

Non-surprise du semaine: GM files for bankruptcy Devils and details of GM bankruptcy Sonia Sotomayor: "A passionate but civil activist" Controversial abortion provider shot dead in Kansas church The right-wing resume of abortion doctor's assassin Cali pastor: No wedding for you! Talent phenom Boyle checks into clinic China says "Not" to cocks in pots

• GM = Government Motors? U.S. could own as much as 70% of carmaker
• Republicans face delicate task in opposing Supreme Court pick Sotomajor
• Amid Prop. 8 protests, advocates begin planning next phase of same-sex marriage fight

• Obama to order $100 mil in budget cuts, also look for change in couch cushions
• The Hugo Chávez effect: book gift to Obama creates overnight bestseller
• Iran's Ahmadinejad makes unusual intervention in jailed reporter's trial

• GM's Rick Wagoner out, US Treasury in
• MI Gov. Granholm: Rick Wagoner a "sacrificial lamb"
• The Guardian UK: "Afghanistan's failing army"

Throughout the early part of the twentieth century, streetcars were a fixture in most American cities. Their slow, deliberate, and emission-free navigation served as the early progenitor of today's mass transit systems. And were it left to the environmentally conscious, they might still function as the backbone of intracity transportation. Sadly, apart from a few shining exceptions, streetcar lines today serve more as nostalgic tokens of our recent past.