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Yelp's founders aren't in a hurry. To build team spirit, they spent last Thursday with the staff--playing croquet, followed by a cable-car ride and a nocturnal pub crawl--happy to bide their time...
...most advanced hydrogen-powered vehicle on the road, probably the most expensive and certainly the only one of its kind. All of which made the company's decision to give the keys to a journalist with an expired license and no insurance a bit questionable. After parking the car at the test track--without a scratch--I asked Fujimoto, a lead designer of the FCX, what he thought of my driving. "I was just praying," he said, "Please don't break...
...fair to say that environmentalism is existential at Honda. "We are car producers," says Takeo Fukui, Honda's CEO. "As long as we're doing business producing cars, we need to resolve the environmental problems that arise from what we produce...
...next green breakthrough, spending billions to develop everything from a new form of ethanol production that can utilize the waste parts of plants to a fuel-efficient minijet. But the design that might have the best chance of making an immediate difference is a throwback: Honda's clean diesel car engine. Diesel is the choice of fuel-guzzling 18-wheelers, but it burns as much as 30% more efficiently than gasoline. It's also dirtier. But last month Honda unveiled an engine that uses a new catalytic converter to block pollutants like soot and nitrogen oxide, a greenhouse gas. Honda...
...answer was that it was an act of self-preservation--"That's what all heroes are made of." I disagree that heroism is rooted in self-preservation. The soldier who throws himself on a grenade to save his buddies and the citizen who pulls a stranger from a burning car knowingly reduce their chances of survival to increase those of another. It is the willingness to risk one's life for a noble purpose that should define an act of heroism, not the instinct for self-preservation...