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Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn admits he's nervous. His company just launched its most important car in years, the redesigned 2007 Altima sedan. The model it's replacing was one of the best-selling cars in 2005, a monster hit for Nissan, and Ghosn has no idea if the latest edition will fare as well. "We have so many new products," he told TIME in an interview in New York City, "that it's a very tense period...
Nissan may be losing the technology race too. The company plans to launch its first hybrid model next year, about a decade after Toyota put hybrids on the market. Nissan's tardiness is no accident; Ghosn has long believed that hybrids are money pits for manufacturers. Still does. "I'm skeptical of the business case," he says. Nonetheless, Nissan is playing catch-up in a hot automotive area. Hybrid sales overall are booming, up 23% this year, and even Porsche and BMW are getting into...
...lens still comes from the St. Petersburg factory, so the visual quirks - intense colors, sharp contrast, wacky focus - remain intact. A new multiple exposure switch allows unlimited shots on a single frame, while the added cable release lets you fire the shutter from afar. At $320, this model also costs more, but one thing hasn't changed: Lomo is sticking to film. Says Lomographic Society head Matthias Fiegl: "Because young people are used to digital photography, analog is special. Putting the film in the camera, exposing the lens, the chemistry ? It's very exciting." And not knowing how the shots...
...while the government still focuses on their differences - theirs is a democracy, Indian officials note, where laws are debated and voted on rather than pushed through by an all-powerful one-party state - it also looks to the success of Beijing's economic reforms as a model for transforming its own country...
...factions in the United States who actively oppose granting marriage and other rights to homosexuals need to use their heads and look into their hearts on this one. Rather than trying to rapidly distance themselves from the once-beloved Pastor Ted, who was a spiritual leader and a role model for many religious Christians for years, they should take this time to consider what actually caused this man’s unfortunate downfall...