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...silly foray into the luxury segment with its $68,000-plus Phaeton sedan, which flopped. The company has slashed sticker prices on the Jetta (lowered $1,400, to $16,500) and Rabbit ($1,000, to $15,000), hoping to recover profits with higher volume. And future models won't contain as many standard features, according to Hallmark. The idea is to produce cars that can compete more effectively in the midmarket. Designing cars for the local competitive landscape is precisely what the Japanese have done for decades, of course. But, Hallmark says, "it's a huge change in perspective...
...Look a little closer, however, and it becomes evident why Dandong (pop. 2.4 million) is anything but a normal Chinese city--and why it's a crucial front in the world's struggle to contain a nuclear North Korea. A few hundred yards across the river lie the dilapidated low-rise buildings of the North Korean city of Sinuiju, many of which seem deserted, their window frames empty of glass, their doors agape. A few peasants dressed in blue jackets and trousers can be seen laboring in the fields in front of the town, but otherwise an eerie stillness pervades...
...keeps the doctor away, but a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study released yesterday says a dish of fish also performs swimmingly. Lead author Dariush Mozaffarian and his colleague, Eric B. Rimm, have concluded that the nutritional benefits of fish far outweigh qualms over the chemicals they may contain. Over the past year, Mozaffarian, an HSPH instructor in epidemiology, and Rimm, a HSPH associate professor, waded through research on the nutritive effects of fish. “There had been a lot of media attention...over the potential risks associated with contaminants that are found in fish, such that...
What makes oxygen oxygen and not, say, iron is not what these two elements are made of-both kinds of atoms have nuclei made of protons and neutrons, with a surrounding cloud of electrons. It's how many of these basic building blocks their nuclei contain. The fact that an oxygen atom has 8 protons, in particular, and iron 26 largely explains why you can breathe one and make a frying pan from the other...
...green about that? Carbon fiber is a component of wind-turbine blades, and Zoltek's orders have soared as wind energy expands worldwide. Automakers are also evaluating carbon fiber as a substitute for some metals to improve fuel economy, and next-generation hybrids and fuel- cell vehicles should contain more of the material. Except for the Japanese, "all the auto companies are using or testing carbon fiber with Zoltek," Robinson says. The stock is up more than 185% this year...