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Chrysler, Ford and GM take an average of eight more hours to make a vehicle at their North American plants than do Honda, Nissan and Toyota. Nissan is fastest at 18 hours a vehicle, and Chrysler (the U.S.-based unit of DaimlerChrysler) is slowest at 31 hours, according to the Harbour Report, an annual productivity guide. These times translate into an extra expense of $300 to $500 a vehicle for the Big Three as compared with the transplants, which in a tough market can kill already slim profit potential...
...yields and quality. Already Chinaveg is growing. Total sales were up 40% last year, to $5 million--picture a head of lettuce being sold every second--and sales of higher-margin packaged salads also grew 40%, to $2.7 million. In the U.S., bags of "fresh-cut" produce are the fastest growing segment of the market, up from sales of $300 million in 1993 to $2 billion in 2001, according to the Produce Marketing Association, an industry group. Expect the same in Asia. --By Shai Oster
...bused in to admire? Northwest Yunnan, which has made its first forays into ecotourism, is a perfect place to find out. Through it run branches of four of Asia's major rivers?the Yangtze, the Mekong, the Salween and the Irrawaddy. Between their banks soar some of the fastest-growing mountain ranges on earth, which in turn harbor the world's most biologically diverse temperate forests. Since 1998, when a large-scale ban on commercial logging axed 80% of Yunnan's income, its local governments have latched onto tourism as their salvation. But China's standard models for tourism development...
...perfect time to expand on past efforts. Latinos have become the largest and fastest growing minority group in America, and Admissions Office reports show that the composition of students admitted to Harvard grew from 7.8 percent Latino last year to 8.8 percent this spring. While this increase is encouraging, these numbers still trail behind the representation of other minority groups on campus. Not only should groups like the University Minority Recruitment Program get the support they need to redouble their outreach effort to convince more top Latino students to apply to Harvard, the admissions office should continue to provide focused...
...fastest qualifying times of all the competitors...