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Toyota remains un-American, at least as far as the auto industry is concerned, in one key aspect: it is a nonunion shop, a status that is also subject to intense discussion in local communities. Roger Myers, a county commissioner in Indiana who helped bring Toyota to Princeton, was a longtime executive of the United Mine Workers union and sees the new truck plant as a fertile ground for labor organizers. "I know the jobs have to be there before the union is there," Myers says, "but this is still a union community. I think there will be an attempt...
Most of the auto companies and academics who have heard of this design think the Rosens are spinning their wheels. Of course, the auto companies thought the Japanese didn't have a clue either, but they've also invested billions of dollars in flywheel technology without coming up with much. Says Harold: "Detroit never took hybrids seriously. They weren't thinking broadly enough." Chrysler tried, and failed, to field a race car with a turbo-flywheel power train (the engine and transmission) a couple of years...
...every auto company in the world is desperately seeking an engine to replace the internal-combustion machine that has been powering cars, consuming oceans of fossil fuel and polluting the universe for about 100 years. GM, in fact, will begin selling a battery-powered electric car in California this year. California, locked in a perpetual automotive smog, requires that by 2003, 10% of the cars offered for sale in the state produce zero emissions; many states are expected to follow suit...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is flexing some legal muscle against a German magazine and a company that soups up sports cars. Getting a little carried away with its photo retouching, Sport Auto showed the hard-bodied star on its cover next to a Gemballa Porsche, giving it the thumbs-up sign. Schwarzenegger filed a $5 million lawsuit claiming his photo was used without permission (or payment). You thought he did those Planet Hollywood gigs for free food...
...wonders of modern medicine, none has captured the public imagination as fully as organ transplantation. Since 1967, when South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard kept 55-year-old Louis Washkansky alive for 18 additional days by giving him a heart taken from a 24-year-old woman killed in an auto accident, these spectacular feats of surgical legerdemain--often involving teams of physicians toiling meticulously for as long as 48 hours--have won headline coverage and created instant heroes of patients and doctors alike...