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Perhaps more troubling than current sales is a loss in public confidence. A new survey from Consumer Reports indicates that while more Americans are willing to consider purchasing an American vehicle, they don't view American cars equally. While the number of new-car buyers willing to consider a Ford has increased 17% and consideration of GM models has increased 6% - despite the company's bankruptcy - the number of shoppers willing to consider a Chrysler has dropped...
...share information about climate change in a way that will better inform ongoing decisions that people need to make," says Jane Lubchenco, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "There's an urgent need for ongoing, relevant information about climate change - and there's no current mechanism for providing that." (Watch TIME's video "American Museum of Natural History's Climate-Change Exhibition...
...believes leadership training “cannot be compromised,” especially in these “tough times.” “Leadership is more critical now than ever,” Doochin said, pointing out that faulty leadership was a potential factor in the current financial crisis. —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached at mquach@fas.harvard.edu...
...their letter, the Harvard professors endorse the intent of the proposed reform but push for revisions to the specifics of the proposal. Instead of the current reform’s rule that shareholders be able to nominate directors with as little as a one percent stake in the company, they proposed the bar to be eligible be raised to five to 10 percent ownership in the company for at least one year. Currently, the proposal requires only a one percent stake to nominate...
...given by humanitarian deminers. The robot was to be used to perform area reduction in uncharted territory. Area reduction is the first phase of any demining project where a large area is reduced to smaller plots of suspected regions. Since area reduction is done in lands abandoned for decades, current techniques require deminers to cut and burn the vegetation. Our effort was to develop a low-cost robotic platform that could assist in area reduction while eliminating the need to damage vegetation. Since moving through tropical vegetation is extremely challenging for a robotic platform, the prototype robot...