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...Vienna, Drucker fled to London in 1933 after the Nazis banned one of his essays. Four years later he migrated to the U.S., where he published his 1939 book on the rise of authoritarianism, The End of Economic Man. It was his classic 1946 study of General Motors, The Concept of the Corporation, that launched his career as a business guru. Drucker went on to write more than 30 books advocating the empowerment of employees while questioning unbridled capitalism, big government and Wall Street greed...
...Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: www.toyota.co.jp/en/news/04/1203_1e.html The i-unit is a four-wheel personal-transportation system that looks like a space-age sports car. "This is designed to be an extension of the human body," says Yoshiaki Kato, chief engineer of the fully electronic, drive-by-wire concept vehicle, which is powered by lithium-ion batteries and has an exterior made of biodegradable, plant-based materials. The 3-ft.-wide, leaf-shaped i-unit is nearly 6 ft. tall when positioned upright but drops its center of gravity and reclines into a sports-car position for traveling...
...China, Greece, India and Mesopotamia. Soon, however, Muslim intellectuals were not content just to reproduce others' works, and began to elaborate on them, making their own important discoveries and innovations. Muslim mathematicians took principles developed in Greece, such as Euclid's theories of numbers and geometry, and the Indian concept of zero, as the basis for developing such new disciplines as calculus and trigonometry. Of the early math books on view, the illustrated Treatise on Geometry is significant for its author, the Muslim king of Saragossa, Spain, and its date of 1080. Similarly, Arabs absorbed the theoretical concepts of Greek...
CLEAN CAR General Motors' AUTOnomy concept vehicle is powered by fuel cells instead of an engine. All that comes out of the tailpipe is non-polluting water vapor...
...administered at points well beyond the halfway mark of the semester—since, after all, bizarre testing procedures are par for the course here at Harvard. But even alongside atypical practices such as holding finals after winter break, the “second midterm” concept is a deeply frustrating one for students across the campus. While we all appreciate the opportunity to redeem ourselves (should things not go so well on the first midterm), we’d also appreciate the opportunity to lead normal, happy lives at some point during the months of October and November...