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...nimbleness seen in Silicon Valley, Japan's manufacturers and their systems began to be seen as inflexible, too removed from a changing global economy to adapt. Analysts describe a Toyota management team that had fallen in love with itself and become too insular to properly handle something like the current crisis. "The reaction to [the situation] is a very Japanese thing," says Kenneth Grossberg, a marketing professor at Waseda University's business school in Tokyo. Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University Japan, says Toyota's managers don't understand how sensitive the American public is to auto...
Glaciers are thought to change at, well, a glacial pace. Certainly that has been true throughout the planet's history. The current ice age - known as the Pilocene-Quatenary glaciation, which began 2.6 million years ago - has witnessed some 20 cycles of glacial (freezing) and interglacial (thawing) periods, with ice sheets advancing and retreating completely on roughly 100,000-year time scales. But scientists are unsure exactly what prompts the shifts in cycles...
...increase in question, released on Feb. 1, augments the current budget for Pell Grants by six percent, raising the minimum grant from $5,500 to $5,710. It will also allocate an additional one billion dollars to the National Institutes of Health, constituting a 3.2 percent increase, the largest such increase in eight years. The National Science Foundation, likewise, will see an eight percent growth in the size its budget under Obama’s proposal. These changes will likely make American education available to an even wider group of students, and they therefore deserve praise...
...We’re not giving up on Currier at all, and we’ll be back for Commencement to see the current juniors when they are seniors,” Wrangham said...
...Torino Olympics, Vonn crashed during downhill training and was airlifted to a nearby hospital. Doctors thought she might have fractured her pelvis and suffered massive head trauma. The injuries were not as serious as originally feared, and she was able to race two days later. Alarmingly, Vonn considers this current situation worse. "I feel like, with a back injury, it's easier to push through," she says. "With a shin injury, there's no way around the pain." Is there a chance she doesn't race at all? "Yeah, that's a possibility," Vonn says...