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Ford is facing a similar problem: it simply cannot get enough of the batteries to keep up with the demand for its Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner hybrid models, says spokesman George Pipas. Ford currently has access to only 24,000 of the special batteries under a contract it signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hybrid Holdup: Fresh Batteries | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

Surprisingly, what would normally be considered a harrowing brush with death proved a transporting spiritual awakening. As a result of her stroke, Taylor found herself in a transcendental state, stripped of the burdens of normal consciousness. Freed from the need to worry or analyze, she attained something resembling the Buddhist...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: A Stroke of Genius | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

At the end, one of the few survivors stands on a hill everlooking the remains of the bridge, its builder, and its destroyers, murmuring, for very good reason, “Madness...madness.” Such fine touches of irony pervade the film, giving it a refreshing tartness that...

Author: By Julius Novick | Title: At the Gary: The Bridge on the River Kwai | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

The North Beach literati have suffered from their followers. In each generation, there are eternal college sophomores, the professional Bohemians, and the bored suburbanites ready to don both turban and sandals, grow a beard and go wandering down the beach screaming at the sea. Beat, cool, gone, way out?...

Author: By John D. Leonard | Title: Free Beer and Poetry | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

This introverted escape from nature, which has become a national stereotype for the Harvard man, could be somewhat remedied by extension of parietal hours until ten o’clock each weekday evening. There is no reason to believe that the average student would have female guests in his room...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Love in the Afternoon | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

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