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BMW Promises Electric Megacity Car in 2013
KickingTiresBMW is now confirming a timetable for the sale of its new Megacity vehicle, a small electric car. The company made the announcement today at the Beijing auto show in China. The Megacity will be sold under a sub-brand of......Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Beijing (China), Mini, BMW, Auto Shows
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'Cirque Shanghai: Dragon's Thunder' on the Skyline Stage at Navy Pier ★★★
So here's an indication of how far China has come: The last motorcycle rider in the Globe of Death in this year's "Cirque Shanghai" on Navy Pier is a woman. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has had more riders — we Globe of Death fans...
Tags: Shanghai (China), Chicago Public Schools, Navy Pier, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Chinese culture crisscrosses with Chicago in woman's story
On the day that Anchee Min realized it was her mission to help Americans understand the Chinese, she had taken her daughter to a park in the Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport. Min had been in Chicago for most of a decade by then, attending the School...
Tags: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Literature, Rentals, Immigration, Arts and Culture
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Get a discount, then pay extra
Sherry Tedeschi is an avid moviegoer, typically hitting a film a week, sometimes two or three. The Beverly Hills resident usually patronizes the AMC Century City 15 multiplex so she can poke around the Westfield mall after the show. She buys packets...
Tags: Marketing, Entertainment, Services and Shopping, AMC (tv network), Arts and Culture
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Andres Oppenheimer: Xi's Latin America tour a tit-for-tat message to Obama
The most interesting thing about China's new President Xi Jinping's first official trip to Latin America is that he will not set foot in Cuba, Venezuela or any other of China's political allies in the region — which would have received a huge...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Hu Jintao, Costa Rica, International Monetary Fund, Barack Obama
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Lifeline announces 2012-13 season, including 'The Woman in White'
Lifeline Theatre will stage a new adaptation of "The Woman in White," the 1899 English ghost story by Wilkie Collins that previously became the main source of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, as the opening production of its fall season. Robert Kauzlaric's...Tags: Rogers Park, Literature, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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MarksJarvis: Stocks climb more than 13 percent in 2012 despite a lackluster economy
You had perfectly good reasons for being cowardly about the stock market in 2012, but caution didn't serve you well. Despite the fear that a eurozone breakup and a European bank infection would set off another global financial crisis ... despite the...
Tags: Finance, Bonds, Federal Reserve, Fiscal Cliff, Ben Bernanke
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Stocks up 15 percent this year, but last 3 months could be dicey
If you keep an eye on your 401(k), you might be among the cheerful Americans who told researchers in a recent Conference Board consumer confidence survey that they are feeling better about the economy and their future. Rising stocks play a role in...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Finance, Consumer Confidence, Fiscal Cliff, Ben Bernanke
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Andres Oppenheimer: While Pacific Alliance thrives, Mercosur withers
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos may not have been hallucinating when he said last week that the Pacific Alliance - the bloc made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile - "is the new economic and development engine of Latin America and the...Tags: United Nations, Productivity, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Pacific Alliance Corporation, Brazil
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A mission on climate change
WASHINGTON — President Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem. If Congress sticks to its policy of obstruction and willful ignorance, Obama should use...Tags: U.S. Congress, Conservation, Washington, DC, Alternative Energy, Weather
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Harris: Google's Eric Schmidt on North Korea and technology's future
Google's glasses may one day whisper in your ear an old acquaintance's name when you unexpectedly bump into them at a party. Google's car will drive itself in years — not decades. And what if Google's search engine could predict a question you...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Melissa Harris, Beijing (China), North Korea, Eric Schmidt
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Rosenthal: China too big to be ignored
A free trade agreement between the United States and China? Really? How would that work? We give them our intellectual property and they give us their political dissidents? Loosening restrictions on trade and investment between the two justifiably...
Tags: PepsiCo Inc., Kentucky Fried Chicken, Chicago Mayor, Steaks, Henry Kissinger
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