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...BEN FRANKLIN WERE ON E! It turns out famous folks invent more than their images. Thanks to a new patent search engine on Google, you can now unearth the unsung Thomas Edisons of the entertainment world...
...which has helped it reduce energy use in manufacturing 30% since 2000. CO2 emissions per car are down as well, and the company has set a goal of reducing emissions worldwide in 2010 by 20% from 2001 levels. Although no one would mistake Toyota's buttoned-up leaders for Ben and Jerry, the company's green policies make its flailing American competitors look like dinosaurs. "Toyota is just killing Detroit," says Andrew Winston, Esty's Yale colleague and co-author. "They have taken on the mantle of innovation, so they sell more of every...
...Free-Market Man Ben Stein wrote an over-the-top, utterly misguided eulogy for economist Milton Friedman [Nov. 27]. Friedman thought that freedom comes primarily from laissez-faire capitalism, meaning government should leave business alone. This concept was useful at the time of the American Revolution but is anachronistic now. Even Adam Smith said that when men of the same trade meet, they conspire against the public. Friedman's thinking provides a rationalization for government to turn business loose to monopolize the market, exploit the consumer and pollute the environment. Harry L. Cook Ashland, Oregon...
...days, Hollywood made a few series--Andy Hardy, The Thin Man, the Bob Hope-- Bing Crosby Road comedies, and horror films with the whole Frankenstein family. But these were middling fare. The big-ticket items were singular sensations. Nobody made a sequel to Gone With the Wind, Casablanca or Ben-Hur. The industry didn't think in roman numerals until The Godfather, Part II in 1974. But with the triumph of special-effects fantasies like Star Wars, sequels became a smart way to print money. Now they are needed to turn bad years into good ones. The difference between...
...With a little over a minute left in an AFC playoff game, Indianapolis Colts defensive back Nick Harper, his team down three points, picked up a fumble by the Pittsburgh Steelers near the Colts' 1-yd. line and ran for what should have been a touchdown. But Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hustled to trip Harper, saving the game for the Steelers, who went on to win the Super Bowl...