November 22, 2012

The Renault Twizy E.V. is one of those vehicles you instinctively want to like, but it’s really not a car. In France, whence it comes, it is classified as a quadricycle, which limits where it can be driven.

Lighting is growing in its role as the face of auto style and branding; manufacturers are shaping headlights to help establish a brand signature, much as the shapes of grilles have in the past.

Rikers Island has donated gasoline, food and clothing, while inmates have contributed labor, doing laundry for displaced New Yorkers in shelters.

The agreement brokered between Israel and Hamas was the start of an unlikely alliance with a fair measure of risk for President Obama and Mohamed Morsi, his counterpart in Egypt.

Hewlett-Packard’s troubled purchase of the software company Autonomy is an example of the problems older technology companies face as they try to get the jump on their younger rivals.

Sites like Google and Bing are showing the precise questions that are most frequently asked, giving everyone a chance to peer virtually over one another’s shoulders at private curiosities.

Apart from providing community pride, football serves as an advertisement that, despite its troubles, Clairton in western Pennsylvania remains open for business.

Palestinians erupted in celebrations, vowing unity among rival factions and a commitment to resistance, while Israel sought to soberly sell its military operation to a domestic audience.

Apps for Black Friday shoppers are now loaded with planning tools, prices and directions to parking spots.

In the Northern Neck, history mingles with undulating landscapes, dramatic riverside cliffs and bald eagles, but miraculously few tourists.

Norbert Reithofer, who became the BMW chief executive in 2006, has delivered consistent profit through two crises and is becoming something of an icon of the revival of German industry.

Taking a page from the Reagan administration and the development of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 may help the Obama administration.