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...Chrysler's design studio in Auburn Hills, Mich., last December convinced Fiat executives that Chrysler could still put some new zip into vehicles such as the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Even before the bailout, Chairman Robert Nardelli had decreed that the company, with help from A123, a battery maker, and General Electric would move ahead to develop electric vehicles with four times the fuel economy of Chrysler's traditional sedans and Jeeps. "We're not going back," Nardelli said...
...potentially devastating implications of global hunger and encouraged students to raise local awareness at a symposium held in the Science Center yesterday evening. Participants in the four-person discussion, entitled “The Ingredients of Food Security,” included Howard A. Zucker, the former assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, along with colleagues in economics, political science, and humanitarian outreach. Zucker began the event by asking attendees to consider the amount of food that goes to waste during an average restaurant dinner. “Now just imagine if one out of every...
...League is not going to work a whole lot,” Kantrovitz says. “I saw the writing on the wall at that point.”John Mozeliak, the person who signed Kantrovitz for St. Louis and the big league club’s current General Manager, called Kantrovitz in to his office to inform him that the Cardinals were letting him go.Of course, neither man could have guessed that Mozeliak would wind up hiring Kantrovitz in a different capacity a few years later.After Kantrovitz’s minor league career came...
Carole Horne, general manager of Harvard Book Store, said that the increased sales tax further tips the playing field in favor of Internet retailers...
...there have been no confirmed cases of swine flu among the MIT student population, said Howard Heller, the chief of Internal Medicine at MIT, in an interview this afternoon. According to Heller, as of yesterday MIT has seen one confirmed case of Influenza A--a general species of the flu virus whose many variants include the standard "human flu" as well as the "H1N1 virus" known as swine flu--but it was unlikely that the person diagnosed had contracted swine...