November 21, 2008

El Mirage Dry Lake sounds like a place one step from nonexistence, but it’s a critical stop on a journey into the idiosyncratic world of this influential rock and blues artist.

Among a wave of diesel cars and trucks, the Jetta TDI is the people’s choice, as well as the current champion of fuel economy.

For neighbors, the uncertainties of life without Long Island College Hospital are deeply unsettling.

While grim prospects drained some of the usual optimism, there seemed to be little alarm on display at this year’s auto show in Los Angeles.

Hard times are back on the American farmstead, as the price paid for crops is dropping much faster than the cost of growing them.