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...Ford Motor's rulebound ways. "I told the designers to just get on with what they were doing," he says, "and they looked at me terrified, like, What does that mean?" The designers were so used to following orders that Horbury needed first to develop with them a basic company design language before encouraging them to use it to become more innovative. "I think we're getting it now," says Horbury. As an example of the new thinking, he points to the Fusion, a sporty, affordable midsize sedan that Ford hopes will compete with the Toyota Camry, a perennial...
...Barrett, 57, of Temple University in Philadelphia. A cardiologist by training, Barrett started playing with his new CD burner a few years ago and got to thinking that maybe the way medical schools teach their students to use the stethoscope is all wrong. Typically, he says, students attend a basic lecture and listen to a couple of practice recordings, then they're on their own. The cardiologist suspected that they needed more repetition for their brains to assimilate the patterns dependably...
...basic case is this: 529s let you invest money without having Uncle Sam reach in each year and tax your earnings. Thanks to the magic of compounding, a yearly investment of $3,000 that grows, say, 7% annually, to $38,632 after 10 years, could grow tax free to $44,351, according to Robert Matricardi at T. Rowe Price. (You also don't get taxed when you spend the money, though that little bonus will run out at the end of 2010 unless Congress extends...
...intentions may be good, it is the precedent being set that we should be worried about. Twenty years from now we may have a President whose intentions are not so creditable. It is obvious that Americans need to fight terrorism, but in doing so, we are eroding the basic tenets our democracy is built on. History is filled with tyrants and dictators. Let's not leave room for one to come to power in the U.S. RYAN FORTMAN Denver
...setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Northwest Coast Indian masks painstakingly reassembled from unstitched Nike Air Jordans. "On my [childhood] reservation, basketball has taken over from hockey, because it's basic and cheap - all you need is a hoop and a ball," says Jungen. So when he spotted a pair of the black, white and red sneakers in a Calgary sporting-goods store, the penny dropped: "I thought, holy s___, that's exactly like the Coastal [Indian] color scheme," he says...