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...What is particularly ironic about the Big Three's situation is that the companies are now as near to their long-sought goal of parity with the Japanese firms Honda and Toyota as they are to collapse. In the past couple of years, Detroit has closed the quality gap. Its cars are competitive on engines and drivetrains and fits and finishes. Some top-class products score well with car rater J.D. Power, such as the Cadillac CTS and Ford's new F-150. "What exposes us to failure now is not our product lineup or business plan or our long...
...sense of how technological progress is translating into environmental gains, take a trip to Lafarge's research campus, just outside the French city of Lyons. The world's largest cement company, Lafarge has set itself a goal: by 2010, it will cut its net CO2 emissions for every ton of cement it produces to 20% below the 1990 level. But it is also steaming ahead with research into smarter, stronger and less polluting products, including ultra-high-performance concrete. Research director Casanova traces the path of innovation back to the 1980s, when the first big gains were made in increasing...
...last year’s success that included, among other accolades, All-America honors after finishing fourth at the NCAA Championships in the high jump, her first career indoor Heptagonal title, and an Olympic trials performance that resulted in a personal best 1.84-meter clearance. “The goal I’m going to stick to is to not keep track of numbers in my head,” Christensen said. “I’m going to focus on just going out and having fun.” With the season just beginning, the squad...
...game that takes a lot of effort to get motivated for.”The Wildcats are led offensively by sophomore Jenn Wakefield, who has posted 19 points in 13 games, junior Kelly Paton, and senior Sam Faber. Sophomore goaltender Kayley Herman currently has a 2.44 goals against average. And New Hampshire is unbeaten on its home, Olympic-sized ice, with a 5-0-2 record at the Whittemore Center. “We certainly enjoy playing New Hampshire. They’re a strong team and it should be a good atmosphere,” Stone said. Stone...
Perhaps one of the most depressing parts of this ongoing saga is that the laudable goal of clean and efficient energy production has been hampered in part by the ability of wealthy and powerful landowners at Cape Cod to lobby to keep this from reaching approval. Were they to succeed at halting this project, it would set a bad precedent for energy development to surrender to the interest of those with wealth, while the disenfranchised are stuck with wind and nuclear energy facilities in their midst. It is both fair and sad to say that if this project had been...