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...customization extends to gearhead items like air intakes, enhanced exhaust systems and rear spoilers. As Jill Lajdziak, a Saturn executive, notes, "Many young buyers would rather buy an affordable vehicle and then have a couple of thousand dollars to invest in a higher level of performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have It Your Way | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...know these closet nerds exist, because--improbable as it sounds to those who wish someone would shove a photon torpedo up the Enterprise exhaust--the enterprise still thrives. Though showing its age after 664 TV shows and a 35th birthday last year, the franchise still generates perhaps $200 million a year in revenues when you add up movie grosses, TV ad sales and what's spent on books (500 have been published), DVDs and tchotchkes (Trek ornaments are always among Hallmark's top holiday sellers). Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Star Trek Inc. | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...back of a Minsk, known locally as the "Kabul tank." When a Minsk Moto-Velo Zavod company director visited Hanoi in 1999, club members welcomed the bemused businessman with banners, cheers, chilled vodka and a 40-motorcycle escort from the airport. "There was so much dust and exhaust kicked up, he couldn't see a thing," recalls a club member. "But we think he appreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Cut | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

...from it. Instead of an internal-combustion engine, for example, the Hy-wire is powered by fuel cells like those used in the orbiting space station. Power is generated by an electrochemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen that yields as its by-product only heat and H2O. No smelly exhaust, no smog, no greenhouse gases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving By Wire | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...employers cannot return money to individuals who fail to exhaust their accounts, lest fsas start to look like tax shelters. But companies can give the money back pro rata to everyone in the plan. Almost none do, choosing instead to offset plan administrative costs--an outrage that Congress finally noticed last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inflexible-Spending Accounts | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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