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...increases. But this year, for the first time, the Senate is forcing a compromise to allow a National Academy of Sciences assessment of the issue. Ford and GM "have definitely seen the writing on the wall," says Senator Slade Gorton, a member of the subcommittee on transportation. "Consumers want cleaner, more efficient sport-utility vehicles...
...puts it, "to raise the clock speed of manufacturing culture." Jacobs is planning to do what Kirila originally intended: to lease the patented VEC system in the same way that Pitney Bowes used to lease stamp machines. "We're proving we can do it better, kinder, cleaner," says Jacobs, who has lost none of his salesmanship. "The world is going to come to us." And learn how to make things the new-economy...
...better ways to fuel its cars and trucks, environmentalists may see a light at the end of the tunnel - as well as a new addition to their arsenal in the war against other, more stubborn carmakers. "Ford's decision shows that people who say you can't make cars cleaner and more fuel-efficient are wrong," the energy policy director of the Sierra Club told the New York Times...
...Rwanda--where 1 in 9 women dies during childbirth--we did so with a plan to help readers help the women we were writing about. Working with Netaid and the International Rescue Committee, TIME developed "birthing kits," which will be distributed to Rwandan women to help ensure safer, cleaner deliveries of their children. We chronicled the tragic death of one Rwandan woman and unveiled the new Internet initiative in our April 17 issue...
Less skilled immigrants are filling so many of the jobs that Americans traditionally disdain--dishwasher, gardener, construction day laborer, house cleaner, nanny--that portions of the economy have become heavily dependent on them. Restaurants alone employ 1.4 million immigrants, who make up almost 14% of all their workers. Christina Howard, senior legislative representative of the National Restaurant Association, says eateries will need to add 2 million more jobs by 2010, and "we are absolutely looking to immigration" to help meet that goal...