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As a third-generation GMer, Jon Lauckner is fiercely committed to restoring greatness to America’s biggest car company. The VP of global product planning and the man behind the Chevy Volt, is determined to go big or go home.

Conservative fringe wingnuts are spreading false rumors that the healthcare reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives contains a requirement that microchips be implanted in Americans before they can receive healthcare. To hear the extremists tell it, "This sort of device would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option," according to an article posted on Current.com.

The summer driving season is at hand, and gasoline prices are suddenly back on your mind. No wonder.

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The Audi A3 TDI has been named the 2010 Green Car of the Year by Green Car Journal at the Los Angeles Motor Show. The clean diesel vehicle gets 42 miles mpg highway while making no sacrifices to comfort and other features.

  • Ahead of the final phase of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, US President Obama, French President Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Brown and German Chancellor Merkel conducted a video conference. The leaders will take part in the conference, which is in its final week.  
  • Germany.info has launched an online advertising campaign on Politico.com, a top political news website, to bring that audience in touch with the latest news, features and campaigns from Germany, in short, the German “spirit of the times” or Zeitgeist. 
  • Are you interested in politics? Would you like to gain insight into the workings of our democracy? Every year, 100 young people from 25 countries have the opportunity to take part in the International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) program in Berlin. The application deadline has been extended until July 31, 2009.
  • At a forum in Washington with Senator Kerry, Environment Minister Gabriel encouraged the audience  to look at the opportunities a green economy can bring, rather than the barriers. 
  • Germany and the US want to work together closely on current international issues. Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his US counterpart Hillary Clinton agreed on this during an in-depth exchange of views in Washington
  • Michael Haneke’s critcally-acclaimed film "The White Ribbon" received top honors – the award for Best European Film – and two additional prizes at the 22nd edition of the European Film Awards ceremony, which was held this year in Bochum, Germany. 
  • Excavations by German archeologists at the ancient city of Troy have revealed that the site may be also be a treasure trove of artefacts from even older societies.
  • EU member states have resolved to provide financial assistance for climate protection measures in developing countries, making available more than 7 billion euros by 2012. Germany will provide 420 million euros a year, Chancellor Merkel announced in Brussels. 
  • Beyond the first bloom of romantic love, the closest I have come to a state of pure rapture was when I stepped across the threshold of the Lenbachhaus.
  • Chicago-born Richard H. Tilly, an economic historian at the University of Münster and an important advocate of the mid-20th-century "New Economic History", has won a prestigious academic prize from the German Historical Institute in Washington.
  • German Economics Minister zu Guttenberg met with US Treasury Secretary Geithner in Washington on Tuesday for what zu Guttenberg called a good and fruitful discussion in an open and trusting atmosphere.
  • Chancellor Angela Merkel records a weekly video podcast to inform the public on current topics. Her current podcast, recorded on March 28, focuses on the upcoming NATO Summit, jointly hosted by Germany and France. For the first time, the podcast has been produced with English subtitles. 
  • "This anniversary gives us the opportunity to redefine the foundations of our alliance,” Chancellor Merkel said after a meeting with President Obama before the beginning of the NATO summit. Both leaders spoke out in favor of reforming NATO.
  • The world's most important security-policy alliance is set to turn sixty. At the anniversary summit meeting member states will be hammering out a new strategic concept.
  • “NATO needs to bring its strategies into line with the new challenges facing it,” declared Chancellor Angela Merkel in a government statement on March 26 only days before the NATO anniversary summit