These are the cats and dogs I didn't use elsewhere.

In trying to mimic the feel of sporty downshifts, it ladles on ever-higher levels of regenerative hybrid braking. To the driver, the sludgy effect feels like throwing anchors of various sizes out the window.

If straphangers can choose between local and express service, why can’t motorists?

It all comes down to price.

"Victory is defeating Al Qaeda," Tony Snow said last week, because "Al Qaeda continues to be the chief organizer of mayhem within Iraq."

If you’re a shady seafood dealer trying to unload a container of dodgy shrimp or tilapia, chances are 98 in 100 it will make it into the United States.

The speculative risk of food-borne illnesses, especially parasites, has captured the public imagination. There are several reasons, however, that these fears are unfounded.

What we need isn’t more tuna, but a renaissance in American sushi; to discover for ourselves -- and perhaps to remind the Japanese -- what sushi is all about.

Consultants have encouraged a culture that deifies them ...

Are these advisers really as important as they would like us, and their clients, to think? Have they ever been?

If they had $1 million, they could generate a rough draft of a mammoth genome in about a month.

What the battle at the mosque seemed to reveal was how complex Pakistani politics is, and how far Islamist radicals are from gaining widespread popular support.

"Today, over all, patents don’t work; for the information technology industry especially, they don’t work," said James Bessen.

"You’re not going to be photocopying forever, so while you are, become queen of the paper jam," Ms. Dixson suggested.

"What happens when all this stock comes back on the market? The loud thud you’ll hear will be the sound of shares falling back to earth."

In the past, some high-end brands were known to burn their excess inventory rather than risk it ending up being sold on the streets.

But even as he growls out the laundry list of plagues, one senses that he mistrusts the coroner’s report.

It was another Saturday night in the West Village, where every weekend scores of New Yorkers take part in a folk tradition long associated with barns and bolo ties: square dancing.

He wants his "Goldbergs" to be watched as well as listened to.

Bach specified that the "Goldbergs" were to be played on a harpsichord with two manuals, or keyboards.

He rarely slept for more than a few hours, his temper on hair-trigger as he fixated on recollections of the mutilated victims of car bombings whom he treated as a battlefield medic.

It’s a parliamentary process.

The seeds of a muscular, politicized Islam were sown early in his life.

The fate of the agreement reached last September between local leaders and the government of Pakistan now hangs in the balance.

American spy satellites will also be able to detect whether the reactor core is cooling; confirmation could take several days.

"Systemwide programs are more effective than piecemeal programs."

April, May and June were the deadliest three months for American troops since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

In Baghdad, 21 unidentified bodies were discovered throughout the city.

There are now just 6 Iraqi battalions able to operate without American support, compared with 10 in March, military officials said.

In terms of astonishment I found myself saying time and again, as I gaped from cliff-edge and bridge and viewing tower: This is as great as the Great Wall.

Both shared a stylistic similarity to the long skirts of the early 20th century: They suggested Popeye’s pal, Olive Oyl, in her ankle-length dress. The rear fender skirts seemed frumpy.