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Chase discussed many aspects of his past works, sharing humorous anecdotes about his time at SNL and about dinners with President Ford, and gave some tips on how to approach a political humor piece...
...Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents...but he continually had physical accidents...he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing," Chase said. "All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it. Unfortunately for Ford, [the sketches] made people laugh...
...featured in the high-tech "Workspheres" exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Crafted of stainless steel on a modified Mercedes-Benz Unimog truck chassis, the MaxiMog has a 360-h.p. engine. The vehicle is street-legal in the U.S. and Europe, yet it can ford a 6-ft.-deep stream and climb a 45[degree] slope. For a mere $500,000 to $800,000, you can order a customized Maximog from Unicat Fahrzuegbau www.unicat.net www.maximog.com in Hambrucken, Germany...
...later, he is halfway there. BP has achieved this in part by reducing the amount of greenhouse emissions that flare away in oil fields and refineries. The company is also looking into cutting carbon content in fuel and boosting the efficiency with which it burns. The oil giant and Ford Motor Co. are providing a $15 million grant to Princeton University, partly to study "sequestering" carbon--stripping the greenhouse element from hydrocarbons, burying it underground and burning the hydrogen that remains as clean fuel. "You can run a company on the basis that you only do what the law demands...
Last October, BP, Alcan, DuPont and others joined with Environmental Defense to launch the Partnership for Climate Action, pledging to reduce their greenhouse emissions to levels meeting or exceeding Kyoto's requirements. Ford, Daimler-Benz and Texaco have not yet joined, but last year they did quit the misleadingly named Global Climate Coalition, an industry group opposed to emissions controls. Honda and Toyota have introduced hybrid cars with emissions 40% lower than standard models of the same size...