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On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that we are “probably overheating” the economy and causing inflation, but he has “high tolerance for inflation in this kind of economy. Because I think we need it as a society to heal.”

Jordan Felo had just finished hiking in the local mountains outside Portland, Ore., several weeks ago and was headed home in his 2010 Toyota Prius when it suddenly lost power and slowed to a crawl. Felo had taken the Prius to a Toyota dealer a few weeks earlier for a 2018 safety recall. New software was installed to fix an overheating problem in the electrical power system. Yet when Felo hit the accelerator pedal, a key electronic component called an inverter overheated and fried itself. “I was lucky nobody was behind me because I would have been rear-ended,” recalled Felo,...

3:00 P{M: Hillary is being given the wake-me-up injection now. Handlers are changing her diaper and fitting the waste collection bags at this time. Pants suit at the ready...

General Motors announced yesterday that it would replace the 120-Volt charging unit provided with every Chevrolet Volt, to provide what GM spokesman Randy Fox called a "more consistent charging experience." Back in July, we reported that some of the charging units provided in Volts were overheating, becoming too hot to touch and in one case, even giving an owner a second-degree burn. Thicker cord Now, after complaints from Volt owners, General Motors has agreed to swap out the unit for a beefed-up unit of the same design. Fox said upgrades to the design include a thicker cord from the unit...

An alert has been declared at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County. Orange County Sheriff’s officials say that there was an incident at the plant at approximately 3:10 p.m. Tuesday, prompting an alert. Southern California Edison tells CBS 2 that the incident is “an ammonia leak that is being contained.” The leak occurred in a steam system used to drive the station’s turbines, SCE said. The leak is not nuclear. No radiation is currently escaping from the power plant, Lt. Roland Chacon said. The Orange County Emergency Operations Center has been activated. No evacuations have been...

Commentary: China flirts with deflation as economy cools By William Pesek Jr. Bloomberg News WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2005 Anyone notice how quickly "overheating" has been dropped from investors' China lexicon? In the annals of word-disappearance cases, it merits a mention. "Not long ago, overheating was all anyone could talk about," said John Chan, managing consultant at Shanghai-based China Streetsmart. "Now, fears of China getting too hot rarely come up." Give credit where it's due: Chinese officials seem to be pulling off an orderly deflating of their nation's economic bubble. Along with this year's deftly handled 2.1 percent revaluation of the...

Technicians sprayed cold water on a nuclear power plant in eastern France today to prevent it from overheating. The teams doused a building that contains one of four reactors at the plant in Fessenheim, 45 miles south of Strasbourg, officials said. Temperatures at the plant rose to 48.5 C (119 F), two degrees short of the point at which an emergency shutdown would be required. Much of France has been sweltering under a hot and dry spell over the last month. The most visible fallout was a series of deadly forest fires near the Mediterranean resort of St Tropez last...