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...poverty acted as a spur. The production techniques of American car companies - with heaps of stored components awaiting assembly, and ample machinery to do it - was just too wasteful and expensive for Japan. Toyota had to learn to do more with less. The result was TPS - or, more generically, lean manufacturing. Inventories were all but eliminated by employing just-in-time delivery techniques, in which suppliers brought components to the assembly line only when needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Troubles at Toyota | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

After measuring the enzyme levels in the liver and fatty tissues from both lean and obese mice, they found that levels of PKR activation were strongly correlated with the amount of fatty tissue in the mice...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protein Found To Induce Tissue Stress | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...sensory, sensuous, sensual experience. The planet Pandora is a wonder world of flora and fauna: a rainforest (where it rarely rains) of gigantic trees and phosphorescent plants, of flying steeds, panther dogs and hammerhead dinosaurs. Audiences are just as beguiled by Pandora's humanish tribe, the Na'vi - the lean, 10-ft.-tall, blue-striped people with yellow eyes. They are what humans might have been if they had evolved in harmony with, not in opposition to, the Edenic environment that gave them birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Ascendant | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...people who go to Harvard can’t wait to say where they went to college. And regardless of your religion or ethnicity, you have to do it with a slightly waspy undertone and lean back. Interns! Interns. (Turns to interns) Do you agree that people who went to Harvard love saying they went to Harvard...

Author: By Charles A. Lacalle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Kelly Cutrone | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...both blocking and tackling," says Dr. Robert Cantu, one of the country's premier concussion experts and a co-founder of Sports Legacy Institute. That goes for running backs as well. Too often, they make a conscious decision to lower their head into a defender, hoping the forward lean will give them an extra yard. That defender's natural reaction? Go head-on as well. What if running backs weren't allowed to intentionally lead headfirst? The NFL is at least considering such a rule. "What concerns me is the runners," says McKay. "A lot of those hits are voluntary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Problem with Football: How to Make It Safer | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

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