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Honda's peppy two-seat Insight travels 600 miles on a tiny tank, a boon to the greenhouse-gassed planet. Toyota's Prius, a sleek five-seater, gets 52 m.p.g. in city driving and is up to 90% cleaner than the average car. U.S. carmakers, reluctant latecomers, have been shamed into promising hybrid models. But will these fuel sippers sell to a pollutants-be-damned nation enraptured by showy sport utes...
Coaching has turned out to be a rewarding profession thus far for Springer, and her abilities in scouting, recruiting and coaching have been a boon to the staff...
...their most appealing light. Due in part to a shortage in space (the exhibit was originally held at the somewhat larger Queens Museum of Art in New York), there isn't much white wall space to spare, and, for a show full of conceptual pieces, this is a boon: each room presents a rich, appealing, visually stimulating array of sculptures, treatises, photographs and pieces of music. And the organization of the show into regions, each curated separately, effectively presents conceptualism as a global phenomenon, emerging independently throughout the world in response to local social, political and economic issues. While North...
...expectation of playing with a talent like Ruggiero would certainly be a boon to Harvard's recruiting. According to Stone, Botterill will also return for the remainder of her eligibility after the Olympics. The last time the pair came together after an Olympic year, the team went 33-1-0. With Ruggiero and Botterill reunited, Harvard undoubtedly would be capable of returning to such previously uncharted heights...
Dichter says his goal now is to apply his formula to sub-Saharan nations, where poverty levels are the world's worst. "I believe technology transfers from Asia could be Africa's wave of the future and a boon to its economic growth," he says. "But the challenge is getting venture capital to a region shunned by foreign investors." Sounds like a good match for his talents...