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...industry's hottest contest is to develop a mass-market electric vehicle, and the Paris show has 19 of them on display. Most are versions of the same system: well-insulated cars with electric batteries that plug into regular outlets at home or at charging stations on the street, a little like filling the tank. Batteries would recharge in a few hours (about six hours in the 110-volt U.S. or about half that time in 220-volt Europe) and run for about 100 miles when full. Executives are betting that range will suffice in cities, where people use cars...
...rigorous engineering program at IIT. In IIM, instead of taking more Operations Research courses, such as technology and mathematics, I really enjoyed organizational behavior and marketing.”During his time at Kellogg, Rangan found that he was also interested in another field. “I slowly developed a love for the social enterprise part of business,” Rangan said. “If you were born in India and grew up there, you cannot avoid being connected to poverty. It’s not as if the wealthy class and the poor class are segregated...
...worth as human beings into their status as dependents. We suddenly gain the authority to tell them how they ought to live and even attempt to sterilize them, as if a human’s worth to a society were solely in her economic productivity. We develop myths about welfare queens, making public assistance recipients into ingrates who ought to be thankful for the little they receive from our hard-earned, taxpayer dollars...
...supporting characters do little to distract the audience from Kearns’ more irritating qualities. “Gilmore Girls” actress Lauren Graham plays Kearns’s wife, and while her character is sympathetic, she is sidelined so quickly that Graham has little time to develop her personality. The film’s style, which could have served to elevate its subject matter, only deadens it. Just as Kinnear portrays a very ordinary man, director Marc Abraham places him in a very dreary world—1950s Detroit. The color quality of the film is bleak...
...volunteering and civic participation. Both men are involved with the Saguaro Seminar, which works to improve the measurement of social capital—the set of resources, available in social networks, that lead people to help and get help from their connections—and studies this information to develop ways to improve civic involvement...