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...could be worse. They could be gifted auto mechanics or football players. But as women working in the male-dominated genre of comicbooks, they have a lot going against them. Even the advent of the subversive underground movement in the mid-1960s amounted to a boys club. Since then the number of women comix artists has slowly grown, but it still remains woefully tiny. Looking for a new work with a distinctly female voice can be a long wait...
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Every big carmaker promises that any year now, it will have a fuel-cell car on the road--a vehicle that will cruise silently, spit drinkable water from its tail pipe and provide power to your house when you plug it into the garage. In the meantime, auto manufacturers are putting nanotechnology to work in other ways. Toyota was the first to experiment with strong, lightweight nanocomposite materials in the late 1980s, and U.S. automakers are starting to move nanocomposites out of the lab and into vehicles. General Motors is using advanced plastics to make step assists...
...company, transforming it into a low-cost producer of cheap cars not just for Korea but for export to places like Latin America and China. The overhaul is already quietly under way, and the company is scheduled to be formally relaunched in October under a new name, GM Daewoo Auto & Technology...
...succeeds, the impact could be felt beyond the bottom line?it might even help to ease the antipathy South Koreans traditionally feel toward outsiders involved in their industrial sector. Although the country has opened up to more foreign investment and brands since the 1997 Asian economic crisis, the auto business has remained devoutly nationalistic?only 1% of the cars sold each year are foreign makes. A GM turnaround could change that, in the same way that Renault's transformation of Nissan showed Japan that foreign partnerships can work...