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2008 Dodge Avenger SE
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The Avenger:
Muscle Car?
Family Car?
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The 2008 Dodge Avenger builds on the
bold and aggressive styling, performance
and excitement of the Dodge Charger.
"The all-new Dodge Avenger brings
Dodge brand American muscle car heritage
into the global mid-size car segment" said
Steve Creed. Senior President of Design,
ChrylserGroup.
There’s no mistaking Dodge’s muscle
car heritage in Avenger’s aggressive lines.
The signature crosshair grille and large
modern headlights housed in black add to
Avenger’s menacing glare. The 2(X)8 Dodge
Avenger has a very serious, almost sinis­
ter, appearance.
The Avenger's side profile demonstrates
even a stronger family resemblance to the
‘Bad-Boy-Charger.’ Muscular rear shoul­
ders, large w heels and tires and a sleek rear
spoiler are the Dodge brand attributes of
bold, powerful and capable.
Specifications: 2.4-Liter 4-Cylinder World Engine 1 73-hp @ 166 Ib-ft. torque, 4-Speed Automatic Transmission, 21-City
mpg 30-Highway mpg, $19125 MSRP
The 2008 Dodge Avenger SE features a
standard four-cylinder engine that rivals
the best in the mid-size care segment when
it comes to fuel economy. The Avenger's
2.4-liter World Engine delivers 173-hp at
166 pd.-ft torques, performing 0-60 in 7.0
seconds. The 2.4-liter World Engine com­
bined with dual variable valve timing deliv-
ers 2 1 -city mpg and an impressive 30-high-
way mpg. The base model Avenger SE has
adequate power for most driving circum­
stances, although the four-speed automatic
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(AP) - The world faces increased
hunger and water shortages in the
poorest countries, massive floods and
avalanches in Asia, and species ex­
tinction unless nations adapt to cli­
mate change and halt its progress,
according to a report approved Fri­
day by an international conference
on global warming.
The report is the clearest and most
comprehensive scientific statement-
to date on the impact of global warm­
ing mainly caused by man-induced
carbon dioxide pollution.
"The poorest of the poor in the
world— and this includes poor people
in prosperous societies — are going
to be the worst hit,” said Rajendra
Pachauri, chairman of the Intergov­
ernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"People who are poor are least able to
adapt to climate change."
The report said up to 30 percent of
species face an increased risk of van­
ishing if global temperatures rise 3.6
degrees above the average in the
1980s and 1990s.
Areas in drought will become even
more dry. adding to the risks of hun­
ger and disease, it said.
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El
Programa
Hispano
Allyssa Keller, (right) El
Progrma Hispano youth
services manager, leads
free activities for local
kids during spring break.
The effort was in partner­
ship with the Police
Activities League and the
PAL Youth Center. Also
pictured (from left) are
Elizabeth Luna, 11;
Jennifer Cecilio, 11;
Dylan Wagner, 9; and
Monica Manzo, 11.
World War II Film Angers Latino Activists
Documentary
includes no
interviews with
Latino vets
(AP) -- Activists who believe
Latinos deserve more recognition
for their co n trib u tio n s during
World War II have created an ago­
nizing political problem for PBS and
filmmaking star Ken Burns.
Several Latino leaders and mili­
tary veterans, angry that Bums'
high-profile documentary series
"The War" includes no conversa­
tions with Latinos who fought, are
dem anding changes. PBS and
Burns want to satisfy an important
constituency, without the prece­
dent of a filmmaker forced tochange
his vision due to a protest.
PBS c h ie f ex ecu tiv e Paula
Kerger, after meetings with leaders
including Congress’ Hispanic cau­
cus. has promised suggested solu­
tions as early as this week.
Burns’ 14-hour documentary is
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' new film, "The War," is
already creating controversy. (AP photo)
scheduled to premiere in Septem­ Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a former
ber. PBS hopes it becomes as de­ newspaper reporter who runs an
finitive a record of the World War oral history project about Latino
II experience as Burns' "The Civil World War II veterans at the Uni­
War" was for that conflict, and as versity of Texas.
Rivas-Rodriguez and her staff
popular. Kerger has already de­
scribed it as Burns' greatest work. police projects about World War II
Even though the film hasn't been all over the country — books, films,
seen publicly, its lack of Latino conferences and the like — to make
representation was sniffed out by sure Latinos are represented. Last
November, when Bums previewed
his film at a museum, her project
manager asked whether Latino vet­
erans were interviewed in the docu­
mentary. She was told no. and im­
mediately set about trying to raise
awareness.
Anger over “The War" has deep
roots.
Rivas-Rodriguez has stories from
Latino Medal of Honor winners who
came home to Texas only to be
denied service at restaurants. She
thinks few Americans are aware of
the experiences, and the lack of
atte n tio n it receiv ed in Tom
Brokaw’s best-selling book "The
Greatest Generation" didn’t help.
“It’s a real sore spot to say to
som eone that your experience
wasn’t unique in this country," she
said. “Our people w eren't valued.
Not only were they not valued then,
they are not being valued today."
The large Latino presence among
the armed forces fighting the Iraq
War deepens the sensitivity toward
this issue, said Marta Garcia, head of
the New York chapterof the National
Hispanic Media Coalition.
A man reads the Granma newspaper as a group o f children
walk past him in Old Havana. The paper published articles by
Fidel Castro about ethanol production charging that the use of
food crops to produce biofuels for automobiles could leave the
world's poor hungry. (AP photo)
Castro: Crops for Food, NotFuel
(AP) - Ailing leader Fidel Castro Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula
returned to the public debate — if da Sil va for his country's ambitious
not view — for the second time in plans for ethanol production and
less than a week April 4 with a his cooperation with Bush in pro­
column in the Communist Party moting it.
"From where and who will they
newspaper denouncing U.S. pro­
supply
the more than 500 million
motion of using food crops for
tons
of
com and other cereals that
biofuels.
Castro chided the Bush admin­ the United States, Europe and the
istration for its support of ethanol rich countries are going to need to
production for automobiles, a produce the quantity of gallons of
move that the 80-year-old leader ethanol that the big companies de­
said would starve the world's poor. mand in return fortheirmany invest­
Castro gently chided leftist ally ments?" he asked in the column.
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