Word: developable
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...that Michael Jordan will have to hang up his high-tops for good. "You don't get cool by writing checks," says Fireman. The Reebok chief is counting on his big-league deals and projects like Diamond, a kind of high-end designer boutique within Reebok that aims to develop the trendsetting sneakers and street fashion of tomorrow. This time around, Paul Fireman's state of rebellion may be here to stay for a while...
...There plainly is a latent streak in the administration of opposition to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and these people want to resume testing of nuclear weapons in order to develop new ones. They believe the current stockpile stewardship program is dangerous to national security, and argue that if a small number of nuclear weapons are required to maintain U.S. national security then there should be testing and development of those weapons. But on the other side, there are those who maintain that it will be impossible to rid the world of nuclear weapons, which is the goal...
Meanwhile, back in his lab, Carson is trying to develop new treatments for a type of cancer called brain-stem glioma. The tumor's location makes surgery difficult and prospects for survival bleak. But those are exactly the kinds of odds that Carson has faced before and beaten...
...Traffic Safety Administration says about half of parents with pickup trucks, the vehicles that have air-bag cutoff switches, still don't use the switches as intended--to shut off the air bags and thus protect front-seat kids. Citing the "widespread misuse" of the switches, NHTSA recommended automakers develop air bags that can turn off automatically when a child is riding up front...
...technology works, but now the race is on to develop products and bring down costs to levels competitive with all things fossil fuel. "We're trying to do in a 10-year period what it took the internal-combustion engine 100 years to do," says Byron McCormick, director of General Motors' Global Alternative Propulsion Center. For GM and the other leading car manufacturers, it will take investments of hundreds of millions of dollars each to introduce mass-market hydrogen cars by 2010. The target: reduce costs of a fuel-cell engine...