| Does Your Car's A/C Have You Hot Under the Collar?
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- MS -- When summer comes and it's time to switch on your car's A/C, it might not blow as cold as you'd like it to. In fact, it could even be blowing hot air. Some estimate that older vehicles can lose as much as 15 percent of their air conditioning refrigerant every year, leakage generally caused when the system is not used during the winter months. During these months, the system's small O-ring seals dry out resulting in refrigerant loss and deterioration in system performance. The good news is, bringing back the cool to your car's A/C and enjoying a sweat-free ride to work doesn't have to mean an expensive stop at the corner garage. Automotive air conditioning technology has produced a new generation of easy-to-use, do-it-yourself products that makes bringing the cool back to your car simple, easy and a lot less costly than that trip to the mechanic's.
Afghanistan:Manley Report
First of all I would like to say I have lost two family members in Afghanistan, and that if I was able to re-join Princess Pat. over there I would, only because I feel obligated to help my fellow soldiers. That said, this mission is one that would go on forever. It doesn't really matter how much stability is brought to the region, as soon as western countries leave, it will again become ruled by Islamist warlords. There is a lot of money to be made in the poppy fields and as long as that remains true, the warlords will return. Now the reasons we went in there in the first place I am sure time will show were false as well. You cannot claim we are there to protect womens rights etc. because if thats what we are doing there we have a few hundred more countries to occupy over there.
8 students treated for pain-pill use
What about the rest of society, can't they find the same inner piece in thier search? Why one people are allowed, another denied? Complex is an understatement. Glad these kids survived, but look at mankind in the broader picture. I'll lisen to suggestions, see more draconian laws, maybe we do the China solution, but you will have yet to find the answer in mankinds affinity for eutopia. .
Finger pointing over bond insurer crisis
Leading the witness list was New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who told lawmakers that the cascading financial woes facing troubled bond insurers "threaten serious problems well beyond" Wall Street. "The problems in this market will affect many average Americans," Spitzer said. "It will affect the cost of college loans. It will affect museum budgets. It will affect state and local taxes." Executives from bond insurance firms Ambac (ABK) and MBIA (MBI) also testified before the House Financial Services Committee panel. The hearing was marked by finger-pointing - with the bond insurers themselves, insurance regulators and short-selling investors who bet on the insurers' fates among those targeted for blame. Meanwhile, Moody's Investors Services announced Thursday that it had downgraded bond insurer FGIC to 'A3' from 'AAA.' Moody's cited the company's weakened capital position and its exposure to the mortgage market.
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