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...size of the Insight and Prius is a potential turnoff for consumers, who fear collisions with gargantuan SUVs. "I'd like to use less gas," says Laura Blalock, a Memphis, Tenn., chemist. "But I can't enjoy saving Mother Earth if I'm worrying about getting squashed like a bug." Customers like Blalock won't have long to wait for heftier hybrids. In 2003, Ford will produce a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda...
Carl Morris was not born with the football bug. He did not dream of Super Bowls and Candlestick Park...
...most exciting short-term benefit of this year's class is that it will provide immediate improvement to the team, which has already been bitten by the injury bug. Co-captain Melissa Johnson is still on the mend from a torn MCL last year, junior Laura Barnard is out with a stress fracture and sophomore Sarah Johnson injured her knee in practice...
...link between sudden infant death syndrome and a common bacterium that is transmitted orally. Babies who died from SIDS were found to have a much higher rate of H. pylori infection than other children. In adults, the bacterium is usually linked to stomach ulcers, but researchers theorize that the bug could be passed to infants by parents' kissing them or caretakers' testing the temperature of a bottle by licking the nipple...
...online at a glance and start chatting right away. And they can do so across time zones, oceans and continents. At the stroke of midnight last New Year's Eve, 80 IBM experts from around the world huddled online to monitor the company's defenses against the Y2K bug. "If there had been a crisis," Patrick says, "all the knowledgeable people would have instantly shared their expertise...