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...bewildering questions in the auto industry is how high gas prices would have to climb before Americans dump their gas guzzlers for more fuel-efficient cars. The issue comes to a head every time prices spike at the pump, whether because of turmoil in the Middle East, a lack of refinery capacity or old-fashioned opportunism in anticipation of a surge in demand. That's the scene now, with oil futures hitting record levels and gas prices averaging nearly $2 per gal. nationwide just as the summer driving season kicks off. If you just spent $75 to fill up your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Vrooom For The Hybrids | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

It’s not as though we have greater problems in the library, such as ringing cell phones or loud disruptive students. No, no. Better deal with the food crisis. Just take a look at Lamont! It’s practically a dump, strewn with wrappers and littered with empty bottles...

Author: By Sarah R. Lieber, | Title: Dartboard | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

...route between luxury hotel and garbage dump has traditionally been one-way. Yet this is set to change, with an innovative project in Cambodia granting street kids a chance to work in the upper echelons of the hospitality industry. Shinta Mani, tel: (855) 63 761 998, is a crisply designed, 18-room, $130-per-night boutique hotel, which opened last year in Siem Reap, 6 km from Angkor Wat. But it also doubles as a vocational training institute, and its first classes, for some 16 youngsters, began earlier this month. The students?some of whom previously survived by scavenging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Check In | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

According to the resolution, which was authored by Allison I. Rogers ’04, who is also a student representative on CHL, Harvard spends $80 per ton to ship its trash to a dump in South Carolina, while transporting recycling to the plant located in Boston costs Harvard only...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Add 86 Recycling Bins | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

...surprisingly, many companies are trying to dump more of the cost of health care on employees. But VitalSpring Technologies Inc. offers a different approach: paying greater attention to get-well strategies for workers, particularly those most likely to get seriously sick. VitalSpring, based in Mclean, Va., was founded in 1999 by Sreedhar Potarazu--an ophthalmologist, M.B.A. and former faculty member at Johns Hopkins University Hospital--with the idea of helping companies control costs by being more proactive in employee health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Rx for Costs | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

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