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...carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But because of a loophole in the 1975 fuel-economy law, today's trucks are allowed to meet a laxer standard on miles per gallon than cars: 20.7 vs. 27.5 on average. The difference mattered less two decades ago, when light trucks--including sport utes, minivans and pickups--represented less than a fifth of new-car sales. Now they account for nearly half. "The industry was claiming it didn't have the technology to boost fuel economy," says Jason Mark, a transportation expert with the Union of Concerned Scientists. "What is revolutionary in Ford...
...year, for the first time, the Senate is forcing a compromise to allow a National Academy of Sciences assessment of the issue. Ford and GM "have definitely seen the writing on the wall," says Senator Slade Gorton, a member of the subcommittee on transportation. "Consumers want cleaner, more efficient sport-utility vehicles...
Like Michael Jordan, Woods not only dominates his sport but is changing the way it is played--and the way it will be played by the next generation. "It's cool now to play golf," Woods says, and if his Tiger Woods Foundation succeeds in making courses and equipment available to more underprivileged kids, the sport will "attract the better natural athletes"--including the bigger and stronger kids, many of them black and Hispanic and Asian. "Just imagine," Woods muses, his eyes alight, "if Michael Jordan, with his size and strength and hand-eye coordination, had started playing golf early...
What Tiger shares with Nicklaus is a first-rate mental game, a vital weapon in a sport in which major tournament pressure can crush even great players. Woods has "the ability to stay in the present during a tournament and focus on hitting one shot at a time," Duran says. Woods' profane outbursts, once common, are now rare. He has learned to laugh at himself more often, which he did even when he made a triple-bogey in the third round at the U.S. Open...
While not exactly withdrawn, the young Tiger had a serene concentration. "He was a very calm individual," says John Anselmo, 78, who began coaching Tiger when he was 10. "He seemed to understand everything in life. Everything we talked about he absorbed." Tiger dabbled in team sports, but "the only [other] sport I truly loved competing in was track and cross-country. For some reason I loved it--I'm sorry, I liked it. I loved golf." He was nearly as assiduous as a student. "I never had to ask Tiger to practice," says Earl, "and I never...