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...cars in Europe also have engines with four cylinders or less, which is more fuel-efficient, while only 28 percent of cars in America have comparably-sized engines.In general, the European market has a higher propensity to buy eco-conscious cars, like Ford’s eco-netic focus model. “We will sell whatever people want to buy,” said Cischke. “An eco-netic is considered a very small car here.”Following the talk, one audience member, a retired physicist, asked whether car companies should prioritize consumer interests over...
...requires--a team to invent new ways to solve problems. Jump Associates, based in San Mateo, Calif., recently collaborated with General Electric's executive-jet business. Jump managing associate Dev Patnaik walked the GE people through hangars and later sent them to a toy store; one brought back a model plane attached to a plastic landing strip. The executive, Patnaik recalls, said, "This is it--this is the problem with executive jets!" He then explained that the services jet owners expect at home aren't always available in the locations they fly to. GE now aims, metaphorically at least...
...blame game. It’s not the white man in Kenya chopping people up. It’s not the white man in Togo stealing from the poor. It’s the neocolonialists, the African elite,” Delle said. “Only when a model of development puts the common African at the epicenter will we change anything...
...bare and feels like a hotel, not a home.” In this case, even when they may know better, the experts must let the laypeople win. At Harvard, the College did an outstanding job at renovating Hilles Library into a student center that’s a model of beautiful design. But they misjudged the puerility of students who won’t walk ten minutes out of their way to come visit it. One can accuse these students of an unfair laziness. But in the end, the success of space is ultimately decided by a democracy...
...presumptuous to expect all Olympic athletes to follow in Carlos's footsteps, to whip out the Tibetan flag on the stand if they're lucky enough to get there. Or to model themselves after Joey Cheek, the U.S. speedskater who donated the $25,000 prize from his '06 gold medal to a project that aids Darfur refugees in Chad. (Cheek went on to co-found Team Darfur, a coalition of worldwide athletes committed to raising visibility for the situation in the Sudan. The group is quite light on big-name American summer Olympians...