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Last month, in one of his regular Q&A free-for-alls with staff, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller said the paper's stories are often too long. "The 1,200 word stories could be 800 or 900," Gawker quoted Keller as saying. Before Keller invests in copy-shrinking technology or hires USA Today editors to reach his goal, he should instruct his reporters and editors to study a daily New York Times Co. product that squeezes both fat and lean out of Times stories—the eight-page-long TimesDigest. (Test drive the June 8, 2007, edition of TimesDigest here.) .
Luxury car prices to soar as EU cracks down on exhaust fumes
Drivers face steep price rises for luxury cars under measures to force manufacturers to meet strict CO2 targets. Those who go green by buying a car with low emissions will be rewarded with savings on fuel over the lifetime of the vehicle, according to plans unveiled yesterday. With several commissioners dissenting, the European Commission set a four-year phase-in period from 2012 for fines on manufacturers whose fleets exceed an average of 120 g/km of the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. A proposed system of fines linked to exhaust pollution will hit the manufacturers of larger cars hardest and brought protests from Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, on behalf of her country’s market leaders such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz. The mandatory measures are designed to reduce CO2 fumes from cars by one fifth in line with the EU’s desire to be a world leader in cutting greenhouse gases and find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol from 2012.
Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's ...
Let's do it this way. I will tell you this story a few times from different people's points of view, and you can make up your own mind. This is about a guy who wound up spending 11 days in jail on what started out as a jaywalking charge in downtown Dallas. .
Wikia Wants to Shake Up Search
Jimmy Wales isn't entertaining David-and-Goliath delusions when it comes to battling Google at Internet search. Wales, co-founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, knows his new Web-search tool won't come close to reaching Google's (GOOG) market share any time soon. But he's got what may be an even grander agenda: Wales wants to shake up how people search the Web, whatever engine they use. Wikia Search debuts Jan. 7, the result of more than a year of development (BusinessWeek.com, 12/27/06) and $14 million in funding from Amazon.com (AMZN), venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, and a who's who of angel investors including Netscape Communications co-founder Marc Andreesen, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Lotus Development founder and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder Mitch Kapor.
ROSEN: Incubators for progressives
Students don't give the school dominion over their private thoughts, outside activities, values or their lives. If most colleges were conservative indoctrination centers, liberals would be up in arms. Mike Rosen's radio show airs daily from 9 a.m. to noon on 850 KOA. He can be reached by e-mail at mikerosen@850koa.com. .
Reading 1 - 2 Aston Villa
Aston Villa outclassed Reading at the Madejski Stadium to bring their dream of Champions League football nearer to reality and push their opponents closer towards Premier League relegation. Goals from Ashley Young and substitute Marlon Harewood were enough to take the points against a side who have now lost a club record eight successive league fixtures and appear incapable of saving themselves. - O'Neill salutes Villa hitmen Villa could have triumphed by a much larger margin, especially as Gareth Barry missed a first-half penalty. Nicky Shorey's 90th-minute free-kick consolation - Reading's first goal in 540 minutes of play - had no bearing on the game. Reading chairman John Madejski had called for the fans to turn the stadium into a "cauldron of optimism'' but although James Harper planted a shot into Scott Carson's midriff within 30 seconds, it quickly became apparent Villa would simply not allow any release from the paralysis that has gripped the home side's season.
Jan. 16, 1936: Day at the Races, and Your Nag in a Photo Finish
1936: A photo-finish camera is installed at Florida's Hialeah Race Track. It marks the first use of the device for thoroughbred horse racing, the sport with which it is most closely associated. Aside from the ponies, photo-finish cameras are used at track meets, in auto racing and in bicycle racing -- anywhere, in fact, where the winner is determined by competitors hitting a finish line. The photo-finish camera was originally a conventional still camera modified to handle rapid multiple imaging by replacing the focal-plane shutter with a capping shutter and employing a vertical slit-view of the finish line. The camera was elevated to avoid blocking the view of any one competitor. With refinements, which resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of photographs taken per second, this remained the basic photo-finish technology until the advent of digital photography.
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