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If you have a teenage child one of the great worries of your life may be wondering how safely he or she will drive. Handing a set of car keys to an inexperienced driver is a nerve-racking experience in the best of situations. Maybe you taught your teen to drive. Maybe you splurged and sent your kid to driving school. There's always that nagging worry about what will happen if your child encounters a dangerous situation on the road. Take heart, parents - a new kind of driving school has arrived to help your kids learn how to control a car in an emergency.

The Infiniti M-series hybrid luxury sedan has been getting a lot of press. It's winning awards left and right, and to be sure, it's a great car. There's just one problem with it for most buyers, though: The top-end model with all the best features starts at $67,100. Most Americans who are conscious of high gas prices, and want hybrid vehicles, won't buy a his-and-hers set when the combined cost could buy a small house. What's a buyer to do when looking for a hybrid that will save on gas, help the environment, but not break the bank?

It seems every time we turn around there is another discussion going on about how to fuel cars in the future. The opening of that sort of debate usually includes a mention of how expensive and polluting gasoline is, which begs the question, "Why do we fuel our cars with that stuff?" There's actually a very good reason for it, and it's firmly grounded in science.

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People buy cars for different reasons today than they did just a decade ago. Gone are the days of 95-cent gallons of gasoline. The buzz words buyers use include "practical" and "fuel-efficient." For those who actually enjoy driving, there's something missing in this clinical, low-cost-of-ownership style of car shopping: the fun they want to have in their cars. Consumer Reports recently produced a list of the most fun cars to drive, and it included…