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...Illinois Institute, a campus designed and once headed by none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Thanks to the sleeve for the railway that sits atop the center's V-shaped roof, it has an aggressively awkward exterior, like a shed being crushed by a giant auto muffler. Inside it's a kind of bright angular cyclotron designed for the purpose of accelerating human fusion. By encouraging students to literally cross paths at every turn, it offers itself as a substitute for the city that once bordered closely on the campus before urban renewal swept it away...
...told TIME. "You've got to fix the problem." A genuine fix means massive job cuts, which requires real political courage in Rome . Just another Catch-22. Ford Has A Better Idea: Profits Has the stalled auto industry turned a corner? Ford last week announced that profits at its global automotive operations almost tripled in the first quarter to $1.8 billion, the first time since 2000 that the Michigan-based carmaker booked more from selling autos than customer financing. Revenues climbed worldwide: spiraling new car registrations in Europe lifted Ford's sales in the region by almost one-third. With...
Created for women by the proud designers shown below and officially unveiled at the New York Auto Show last week, Volvo's "Your Concept Car" is supposed to be what women want. Some females found features like the ponytail rest a trifle sexist, but those who liked its handbag holders, computer-aided parking and easy-opening gull-wing doors will be happy to learn that the Volvo is just one of the formerly gender-neutral products being redone to suit them. Here's a sampler...
Imagine Quentin Tarantino parlaying Pulp Fiction into an endless string of movies, each set in the mean streets of a different city. You're getting close to picturing Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series from British gamemaker Terry Donovan. The most recent installment, 2002's GTA Vice City, is a kind of homage to Miami Vice, in which you play an underworld figure in 1980s Florida. You are what Donovan calls an "aspirational gangster...
...that has now made three consecutive appearances in the NCAA Tournament, struggled against its preseason billing. Harvard finished No. 6 in the ECAC and was a model of inconsistency, but then went on a tear through playoff opponents en route to an ECAC title and that third straight NCAA auto...