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...Cameron's emoting is just one of the movie's flaws. But it's not quite fair to judge Fireproof by normal critical standards. For one thing, it's made not to win awards for brilliance or even competence but to sell a message. (The film is stuffed with citations from the New Testament: James 1:19, Romans 5:8 and 10:9, if you're reading at home.) For another, it has some of the charm of amateur filmmaking - a belief in itself, in pleasing and educating its core audience. In that sense, Fireproof is like Tyler Perry...
...volt Europe) and run for about 100 miles when full. Executives are betting that range will suffice in cities, where people use cars mostly to commute to work and run errands around town. General Motors is testing its electric model, the Chevrolet Volt, in Denmark, and plans to sell between 100,000 and 200,000 Volts a year in the U.S. from 2010; the car would switch to regular fuel once the electricity runs out. Renault will roll out its ZE (for zero emissions) electric car in Europe in 2011, and Tenenbaum estimates that by 2015, auto companies will have...
...tech companies in Silicon Valley, which are also racing to perfect a lithion-ion car battery. What's more, the billions that the auto companies are spending in research could be squeezed during the recession, especially since it is difficult to estimate how many electric cars they will ultimately sell. "Everybody is wondering what the market will be for electric cars and nobody has the answers," says Erik Morsing, GM's public relations manager in Denmark. "It depends very much on oil prices...
...potentially see my skills transferred to achieving a different bottom line,” Grossman said. “And I began to wonder if I could use my managerial and organizational leadership skills to build social value in addition to economic value.”Grossman decided to sell the company he had inherited from his father and enter the nonprofit sector. He volunteered for a few years and did pro bono consulting for the Rockefeller Foundation. But Grossman said he found his calling when he was selected in 1991 to be the chief executive of Outward Bound...
...that buying turquoise is like “owning a piece of the blue sky.” Her collection of turquoise jewelry soon grew to include an array of rugs and pots as well, to the point that the only way she could continue buying art was to sell some of it. After opening a gallery in Albuquerque’s historic district in the 1960s, Bailey and her late husband, Wayne, began traveling to museums across the country to display their artwork. The Peabody was one of their first stops. Since then, Bailey has developed a following...