GM dumps Chevy for Chevrolet

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Motors has banned the use of the Chevy name in all of its corporate communications. From now on, the bow-tie brand will go by its proper name, Chevrolet.

It’s OK if you still call your car a Chevy. It’s just that GM won’t.

The problem, said Alan Batey, vice president of sales for Chevrolet in the U.S., is that in today’s Internet-connected world, documents and Web sites created for an American audience can be read by anyone, anywhere. And the use of two different names for one car brand — Chevy and Chevrolet — can cause confusion abroad.

While Chevy is a popular nickname for the brand in the U.S. and Canada, it’s not used in any of the other 130 or so countries where the brand is sold.

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Cell-phone tower disguised as cross planned for Florida church yard

T-Mobile and a Longwood-area church are hoping to erect a 130-foot cross that will double as a cell-phone tower. But they’ve had bad reception from neighbors, who are protesting the idea.

The proposed “monocross” tower, which goes before the Seminole County board of adjustment late this month, would improve cellular-phone coverage, according to the wireless-services provider. But residents say it would mar the landscape, and they worry about its safety.

“The intrusion by T-Mobile’s monster tower is going to be detrimental to our property values,” said Doug Damerst, president of the Sleepy Hollow First Addition Homeowners Association, who said he would pass the tower daily if it is installed.

The tower would dwarf Rolling Hills Moravian Church below it, but the Rev. Willie Israel said the cross “is a symbol of who we are as a Christian community.”

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Woman striving to be world’s heaviest

OLD BRIDGE, New Jersey (Reuters) – A New Jersey woman is waging a campaign to become the world’s heaviest living woman, admitting that she is as hungry for attention as she is for calorie-rich food.

Donna Simpson, 42, weighs more than 600 pounds (272 kg) and aims to reach 1,000 pounds (455 kg).

The mother of two children, ages 3 and 14, models on a website called supersizedbombshells.com, where admirers and the curious can pay to watch videos of her eating greasy foods or walking to the car.

She has appeared in television interviews and said she welcomes media coverage.

A Guinness World Records spokeswoman said Simpson has submitted a claim for the title of world’s heaviest woman to give birth, a claim that is being reviewed.

Among the heaviest women ever recorded was one who reportedly weighed 1,800 pounds (816 kg) and another who reportedly weighed 1,200 pounds (545 kg) at the time of their deaths.

Simpson said she has received a book offer and wants her own reality show, partly to give plus-size women more confidence. She wears size XXXXXL clothing, which she buys mostly online, and calls herself a member of the “fat acceptance community.”

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