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While Japanese automakers are making a major bet on the burgeoning market and have a sizable lead in hybrids' complex engineering, Detroit has been slower to move away from its reliance on gas guzzlers like SUVs (though the new Ford Escape hybrid is a hot model). GM has been the most cautious about hybrids, which are costly to build and could cut into the company's thin margins on small cars. The leading U.S. car manufacturer is also still smarting from the more than $1 billion it sank into an unsuccessful electric-car project during the early 1990s. "Initially...
...Born: Detroit, Michigan...
...depend on where you live. According to "Sleep in the City," a study that ranks the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas according to whose residents sleep best, Minneapolis tops the list, reporting 23 nights of good sleep a month. The country's most fitful sleepers hail from Detroit, with Cleveland and Nashville close behind. (See TIME.com/sleep for the full list...
Ford isn't the only Detroit automaker banking on heritage models from its muscle-car heyday. Competitor Dodge plans to revive the Charger next year. Judging by its early reception, though, the Mustang is off to a galloping start...
DIED. RAY BOONE, 81, patriarch of the only family to have three generations of baseball All-Stars; of complications from intestinal surgery; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. An infielder who played for 13 years, mostly with the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers, Boone is better known as the father of catcher Bob Boone and the grandfather of infielders Bret Boone and Aaron Boone...