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...buzz is being generated by muscle cars or luxury of the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" variety. Crowds also gathered around cars made by a company largely unknown outside of China, the Shenzhen-based firm BYD (Build Your Dreams). Started as a rechargeable-battery maker, BYD is making a headlong push to become a world leader in what some analysts believe could be the industry's post-internal combustion engine future: electric cars. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...unemployed workers in free training programs this semester, at a total cost to the schools of $741,788. "They shouldn't have to foot the bill alone," Casey says. "My bill will encourage other community colleges across the U.S. to do the same thing." Senate Democrats are working to build bipartisan support for the bill and expect to move it forward in the coming months. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and resurrected it, his centrist, controlling approach looked crazy to many outsiders. The PC business had boomed, after all, in part because the software (that is, the operating system) was separated from the hardware. "PC compatibility" meant that anyone could build a box that ran Microsoft's Windows operating system, and that initially made many companies enormously successful, from Compaq to Dell. But it also created a race to the bottom as hardware makers were forced to continually offer consumers more bells and whistles for less money. At the same time, Microsoft...
...true blue-collars would argue that dog and pony shows build support for their objectives. But sometimes their rhetoric seems more concerned with showing their good intentions than with showing results. A recent SLAM e-mail rallied students to “Save Harvard Jobs” by playing on their consciences: “It’s time to show that our support goes beyond high-fives in the corridors or chats by the security desk.” Instead of convincing students that layoffs were bad policy, SLAM insinuated that, if students did not oppose job cuts...
...over the new Allston science complex will remain idle for the indefinite future. They are behemoths hanging over residents and a constant reminder of the project there, which, for residents like Jake, has recently taken a particularly insulting turn. Not only did Harvard rush through the approval process to build the center, but the university also blasted a huge hole into the ground, displacing the rat population of the entire area...