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...carmakers are looking for incremental improvements in software, electronics, battery storage and even the internal combustion engine itself to make hybrids even more efficient. That latter includes high-compression combustion engines that run without spark plugs. Mike Gauthier, director of corporate technology for Siemens VDO, an auto electronics company in Auburn Hills, Michigan, says future hybrids also will use more sophisticated combustion engines as well as more complex electrical components. "The beauty of hybrids is they benefit from any improvement in the internal combustion engine or storage batteries," he says. The improvement in fuel economy, combined with higher fuel prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Hybrids are Hot | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...accelerated dramatically this year. Two major U.S. airlines--Delta and Northwest--turned to bankruptcy court to cut costs and delay pension-fund contributions. This followed earlier bankruptcy filings by United Airlines and USAirways, both of which jettisoned their guaranteed pension plans. Then on Oct. 8, the largest U.S. auto-parts maker, Delphi Corp., filed for bankruptcy protection, seeking to cut off medical and life-insurance benefits for its retirees. Delphi's pension funds are short $11 billion. To Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor who specializes in bankruptcy, this is just going to get worse, as ever more companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Broken Promise | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...awaiting with trepidation. Journalists see the case as a sort of referendum on the undercover reporting tactics that have become commonplace in an era when there is a different TV newsmagazine show on almost every night of the week--not to mention all the local news shows exposing shady auto mechanics during ratings sweeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESS: HIDE AND GO SUE | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...Letter to God” is proto-Aimee Mann without the believability. The existential crisis here is not actually meant to challenge her thoughts on the conditions of her life; it is just an exercise in intellectual auto-eroticism...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sheryl Crow | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...audiences who have grown inured to the near-nightly footage of suicide attacks in Baghdad. Here the dissection of the phenomenon is a lot more intimate and painful. The first 20 minutes of the film suggests a mundane domestic drama and West Bank life looks crushingly dull. Two buddies, auto mechanics in their early 20s, kill time by drinking tea on a hillside above Nablus, gossiping about girls and whining about their boss. Dishes are washed, children are put to bed; there is not much else to do at night. Then one of the intifadeh's local leaders tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ordinary People | 10/11/2005 | See Source »

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