Big Three beef up muscle cars (Detroit News)

Whether you call them pony cars, as we did back when they were launched in the 1960s, or modern muscle cars, the popular term for their recent rebirth, the Chevrolet Camaro, Dodge Challenger and Ford Mustang appeal to enthusiasts with a need for speed as well as style.

Camaro scores stunner over muscle cars (Philstar.com via Yahoo! Philippines News)

CLARK FREEPORT - A classic 1969 Camaro driven by veteran Ken Kepner ruled the inaugural race of the 2008 Pagcor Drag Racing Championships-Northern Series recently at the newly built Clark International Speedway (CIS) Drag Strip in Clark Ecozone, Pampanga.

LSUHSC's England leads development of new testing guidelines for common nerve disorder (EurekAlert!)

John D. England, M.D., Professor and Chairman of Neurology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, is the principal investigator of two studies recommending new testing guidelines for neuropathy -- a common degenerative nerve disorder that to this time had few evidence-based standards for evaluation and management. The studies, published in two separate papers in the Dec. ...

‘Mexicans will get their revenge’ (Manila Bulletin)

LAS VEGAS — Going into the final days of Oscar De La Hoya’s buildup for Manny Pacquiao, the Golden Boy feels as though he is a muscle car which had just been tweaked to a high-octane performance level.

14,000 acres of headache (Trinidad Express)

FASHIONING a Caribbean response to the global challenges regarding the "Development of Sustainable Agri-food Systems in the Tropics". This was the topic of a discussion on the first afternoon of a five-day conference, now in its penultimate day, at the Hyatt in Port of Spain.