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Yet every auto company in the world is desperately seeking an engine to replace the internal-combustion machine that has been powering cars, consuming oceans of fossil fuel and polluting the universe for about 100 years. GM, in fact, will begin selling a battery-powered electric car in California this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT'S DRIVING THE ROSEN BOYS? | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

That's one reason many competitors in the race for a new engine remain exceedingly dubious. "I consider Rosen Motors to be a very small part of the overall flywheel effort," says Joe Beno, program manager for the electric-vehicle program at the University of Texas at Austin, whose group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT'S DRIVING THE ROSEN BOYS? | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

In the current Broadway production of the King and I, the King of Siam, once played with electric virility by Yul Brynner, comes off as curiously sexless. Overt animal masculinity seems to have been suppressed, perhaps as being retrograde, or even offensive to the spirit of the age. That musky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CHEATIN' SIDE OF TOWN | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

Yet, one year older and some things never change. The other day, the lure of e-mail compelled me to trek from Mather to the Science Center. Not realizing that the Freshman Mixer had been moved indoors because of the rain, I was soon stuck in a mob of eagerly...

Author: By Abby Y. Fung, | Title: Yearning to Be a First-Year Again | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, which affects 1% to 3% of Americans, was until recently considered a chronic, untreatable condition. Victims more ordinary than Lady Macbeth and Howard Hughes are haunted by persistent, intrusive thoughts or worries (obsessions), and may spend countless hours performing repetitive rituals (compulsions) such as hand washing, counting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TARGETING THE BRAIN | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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