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...1990s, Toyota set out to become the world's top auto company. Being the best and being the biggest created a tension that Toyota couldn't resolve. Says MIT operations expert Steven Spear: "If quality is first, it drives a certain set of behaviors. If market share is the goal, it drives a different set of behaviors...
Shannon Carney, a 22-year-old assistant producer for National Geographic's science show Known Universe, has been equally impressed by Montag's willingness to entertain, but the album, plus Montag's extreme plastic surgery, has made her less of a fan. "The world was her stage, and her life was a show," Carney says. "Unfortunately, it looks like she bought tickets to her own show." Carney thinks it's highly unlikely that Montag's music career will continue: "All 658 of us are not going to rally to go to a Heidi Montag concert." If they did, it would...
...ironic that a key Israeli leader warned his people that the status quo on the territories conquered by Israel in 1967 amounts to the same thing. Barak's point was to warn that unless the Palestinians are given an independent state of their own, the world will eventually notice that their lives are controlled by an Israeli state that denies them citizenship, raising the specter of the sort of international isolation and sanctions that helped change South Africa. (See pictures of life in the West Bank settlements...
...double digit growth. Take agriculture. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and many farmers struggling against debt, rising expenses and stagnant yields, have called for a second Green Revolution. But for this, India will probably need the help of biotechnology, a discipline in which India has the potential to be a world leader. Because India allows protests and debate, though, pro-industry rulings are often overturned. (See a special report on the science of appetite...
...organizers to push forward. "We thought it was a way to show that life goes on," says Shiva K.P. Keshavan from India, who finished in 29th place of 39 competitors. "But Nodar will never be forgotten." Until Friday, the Whistler track was proudly marketed as the fastest in the world, as sleds approached 100 m.p.h. (169 km/h). However, in the days leading up to the tragedy, about a dozen athletes crashed during their Olympic training runs. Kumaritashvili's father said his son told him that he was scared of the track. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...