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Electric car maker Tesla defies skeptics
Bet against Tesla founder Elon Musk at your own peril. Just ask the short-sellers who predicted his Tesla Motors would be the next electric carmaker to short-circuit. Quite the opposite has happened. The California electric vehicle manufacturer reported this past week its first-ever profit of $11.2 million as sales of its Model S sedan outpaced even its own optimistic expectations. Tesla is promi...
Chrysler recalls 469,000 SUVs over gearshift problem
Chrysler is recalling about 469,000 SUVs worldwide to update software after some vehicles' circuit boards were found to be transmitting signals that trigger inadvertent gear shifts to neutral, the No. 3 U.S. automaker said Saturday.Included are 2006- to 2010-model-year Jeep Commanders and 2005 to 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokees, of which about 295,000 are in the United States, 28,500 are in Canada ...
Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward.Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks and automobile tailpipes. And there is talk of outf...
Dust to Dust: Eco-friendly burials catch on in US
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- After a two-year battle with cancer, Joseph Fitzgerald was determined to leave his final resting place to Mother Nature.On a quiet February day in rural Florida, Fitzgerald's body was carried through the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery on a bamboo stretcher made by family members.In an ecologically approved "green burial," he was laid to rest on a plot of land surround...
Stocks: 'Sell in May and go away?' Not this year
NEW YORK -- With the Dow and the S&P 500 setting another string of record closing highs this week, the old Wall Street adage "Sell in May and Go Away" is starting to look weak.Closing out the second week of May, the Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 2.3 percent for the month.For the year, the benchmark S&P 500 is up a stunning 14.6 percent.Some analysts say that when the market star...
Opt out or left out? The economics of stay-at-home moms
Conventional wisdom holds that stay-at-home moms do so because they can afford not to work. Instead, experts say, many moms appear to be staying home with their kids because they can’t afford to work.“They just think they don’t have enough education and skill … where their pay would cover their child care, transportation and clothes,” said Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family st...
Stocks end higher for third consecutive week
Stocks finished modestly higher Friday with major indexes posting their third week in positive territory and the Dow and S&P 500 closing at new record highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 35.87 points, to close at 15,118.49, led by Hewlett-Packard. The S&P 500 climbed 7.03 points, to finish at 1,633.70. The Nasdaq rallied 27.41 points to end at 3,436.58. The CBOE Volatility Ind...
