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A CURIOUS FACT WAS NOTICED during the Harvard-Yale game, according to a dispatch from New Haven to a New York paper. Just before Yale made her second touch down, an engine on the Connecticut River road which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring...
Reviving this economy is proving to be one of the toughest challenges of the century. In previous downturns, policymakers were able to jump-start the engine through tax cuts, higher government spending and falling interest rates. But this time around, such techniques either haven't worked or are difficult to...
Hot rodding used to be a pretty straightforward hobby. Once you'd mastered manifolds and camshafts, all you had to worry about was how to get the money for your engine parts and the grease off your hands. Then in 1981, Detroit, pressed to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency...
No problem. A lively market has now developed for so-called superchips, plug-in brains that replace factory-supplied engine chips and offer a variety of improvements, from better gas mileage to higher horsepower. Today half a dozen U.S. firms, led by Memphis-based Hypertech, sell some 40,000 high...
The superchips represent the merger of two quintessentially American pastimes: car customizing and computer hacking. When the first "engine management" chips debuted, some bright young computer types broke the coding and discovered that the tuning devices supplied by the manufacturers were designed for average drivers using low-octane fuel and...