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...head of the Nano team says Tata Motors has applied for 34 patents on various components and design features on the new car, though he was short on specifics. The car reportedly uses super strong glue rather than welds in some joints - a technique that a handful of other car makers have used before, though perhaps never as extensively. Tata Motors' cost-cutting drive was relentless: the windshield has just one washer rather than two, the metal steering column was hollowed out to save on steel, cheaper bearings - strong enough to perform well up to (70 kph) but fast wearing...
...SMOKE RANGE by Maarten Baas A pyromaniac with manners, Baas is part of the "design art" movement that elides the distinction between the fine and applied arts. A graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven, he burns existing furniture - but just enough to scorch it. The charred remains are then preserved as "new" pieces. It's hellishly clever. www.maartenbaas.com...
...DOLLAR CHEST by Jimmie Martin Money talks, but should it shout all over French antiques? Design duo Jimmie Martin (they're Swedes living in London) paint venerable items in gold and silver leaf and graffiti them with if-you've-got-it-flaunt-it slogans and symbols. Fashion designer Paul Smith says new-Brit design twists the classics; here, it positively makes them reel. www.jimmiemartin.co.uk
...structural design of the Core is its most significant flaw. The act of requiring a set number of large, mediocre lecture courses degrades—rather than improves—a Harvard education. Options under the Core program are often over-sized (Historical Study A-87, “Madness and Medicine” with an enrollment of 339), obscure (Literature and Arts A-63: Women Writers in Imperial China), or all too few (a total of three Historical Study B courses this semester). Students who will graduate before seeing Gen Ed implemented should not be constrained by this confessedly...
...Obama's financial backers and many of his political advisers pressed him to drop the nice-guy approach and take a much harder line with Clinton. But Obama refused. He couldn't do that, he said, and besides, such an old-fashioned approach ran counter to the whole strategic design the campaign: to build a coalition of Democrats, independents and even Republicans for a new kind of bipartisan approach to solving the nation's problems...