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...team. Paul O'Neill got the first call, nominated for treasury secretary. Though seen as something of a Washington outsider, O'Neill, most recently chairman of the Alcoa Corporation, served for a decade in the Office of Management and Budget in the '60s and '70s. His work under Gerald Ford introduced him to then-White House chief of staff Dick Cheney...
What he looks like is a man in charge. Cheney's reputation in Washington--whether as Gerald Ford's chief of staff, a Congressman or Defense Secretary under President Bush--has always been that of the ideal lieutenant: loyal, competent and self-effacing. His Secret Service code name under Ford, "Backseat," reflected his deferential style. But Cheney is currently playing such a high-profile role for Bush that lately he has been overshadowing his boss. In the first crazy 36 hours after election night, it was Cheney, not Bush, who made the key decision to ask his old colleague James...
...with gargantuan SUVs. "I'd like to use less gas," says Laura Blalock, a Memphis, Tenn., chemist. "But I can't enjoy saving Mother Earth if I'm worrying about getting squashed like a bug." Customers like Blalock won't have long to wait for heftier hybrids. In 2003, Ford will produce a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda Civic. Proving that hybrids are not necessarily environmentally virtuous, DaimlerChrysler has announced a hybrid version...
Whether they like it or not, automakers have no choice but to produce more hybrids. Skyrocketing SUV sales mean the companies' average gas efficiency is declining, so to meet federal rules the manufacturers need ultra-high-mileage vehicles to compensate. Ford's chairman, William Ford, has predicted that hybrids could account for 20% of the U.S. market in a decade. Beyond the need for fuel economy, however, looms the urgency of curbing greenhouse gases--a quarter of which result from car and truck emissions...
...JOHN P. STEVENS APPOINTED BY Gerald Ford (1975) Widely expected to be the next Justice to retire, Stevens, 80, is probably the most liberal member of the Court, especially on criminal cases. He's also the Justice most likely to issue one-man dissents and concurrences, opinions that his colleagues on the Court don't join...