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...electronics to pile into flat screens?especially the production of the glass LCD panel that is the primary, and most expensive, component in an LCD TV. Asian companies in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan dominate this side of the business. Much like semiconductors, LCD panels are manufactured in clean-room factories that require massive investment. Ten new plants costing around $20 billion will start up between now and the end of 2005, increasing the industry's production capacity by 70% next year. Even more are on the drawing board. In August, Japan's Hitachi, Matsushita and Toshiba announced...
...want our communities to be safe and clean. In order for that to happen, prompt, reasonable assistance must be offered to those citizens who lack the resources or ability to meet basic needs without the assistance of others...
Indeed, with Harvard’s bumper crop of plaudits rolling in, it seems Yale’s status as a safety school for kids who didn’t have the scores, the grades or the clean arrest record to get into Harvard is becoming even more obvious. The Times Higher Education Supplement just ranked Harvard the best university in the world. Continuing to sow the seeds of mediocrity, Yale scored, you know, a respectable eighth. Even Stanford, famous for resembling the world’s biggest Taco Bell, managed to score higher...
...demand. Last month Beijing approved its first fuel-efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, which will begin to take effect in 2005 and will be more stringent than those in the U.S. Toyota plans to manufacture the Prius, its hybrid gasoline-electric car, in China, where it hopes the clean vehicle will find a significant market. Beijing's government, meanwhile, is working to develop electric cars before 2008, and GM is working with the Shanghai Automotive Group on a hybrid-bus design...
...year-old was pulled over and busted for drunken driving. The pool boy had been partying with college students in Salisbury--a small town where the biggest celebrity spotting is normally of chicken magnate Frank Perdue. Phelps, who parlayed eight medals (six of them gold) and a squeaky-clean image into oodles of endorsement deals, humbly apologized. All right, but there's still the matter of those how-low-can-you-go Speedos...