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...just the military that's interested. General Motors' vice president of research and development, Larry Burns, says GM hopes to sell fuel-cell-powered cars by 2010. Deere & Co., the maker of farm and construction equipment, is working on a hydrogen-powered forklift. And the Canadian government has pulled Hydrogenics into a $6.1 million project to deliver a fuel-cell-powered transit bus to the streets of Winnipeg, Man., by March 2005. Hydrogenics co-founder Pierre Rivard says fuel cells probably won't go mainstream for another 5 to 15 years, but with GM's backing, the $128 million publicly...
...forklift drops a huge “bale of clothes” on the shop’s floor and the fun commences. But wading through masses of clothes is just the beginning—belts, bags and “bric-a-brac” (miscellaneous tableware and random objects) are also up for grabs. After you have selected your items, the cashier weighs them and charges you $1.50 per pound (75 cents per pound for bric-a-brac). Alternatively, you can peruse the collection of used records ($3), CDs and tapes...
...largest first printing ever; and at close to 900 pages, the longest children's book there is. It already has the top advance sales in history: it was Amazon.com's best seller two hours after it became available for preordering. And its contents were so secret that a forklift driver was sentenced for stealing pages from a printing plant in Britain and trying to sell them...
...SENTENCED. DONALD PARFITT, 44, a forklift operator; to 180 hours of community service for stealing the fifth installment of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series; in Suffolk, England. Parfitt tried to sell the pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which he claimed he found in a parking lot, to a newspaper for ?25,000 (about $41,550). The book launches on June...
...Platt was a surgeon in Tennessee for nearly 40 years and then an outpatient physician at a veterans' hospital on Parris Island, N.C., for an additional 10. Now, at 85, he works four days a week in the garden shop of the Hilton Head Wal-Mart, operating a forklift and keeping computerized accounts of stock. Always a plant lover, he shrugs off the unlikeliness of the job. "I didn't compare it to what I had done in my professional life," he says. Platt enjoys the perks: he and his wife Mary, 76, have just planted a good selection...