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...Japanese senpai-kohai system, in which the more experienced teach their juniors. The GT-R team simply took that Japanese concept and exported it to build the car that Nissan--and, it hopes, luxury consumers--is waiting for. "Through the GT-R," Mizuno says, "all of Nissan can grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revving Up Nissan | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

Mulholland backs that conclusion. Our inland waterways can barely handle the nitrogen fertilizer we're already using in order to grow record yields of corn and other crops. Truly ramping up biofuel production - unless it can be done in a way that uses much less fertilizer, perhaps with experimental techniques that harness plant waste matter instead of food crops - might overwhelm that system. "We have to be very careful about biofuels in terms of what kind of crops we grow and where we grow them," says Mulholland. "The great expansion of corn could be a real problem." It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Problem with Biofuels? | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...company to have a guaranteed monopoly on selling big airplanes to the U.S. military. But the prize market, of course, remains commercial aviation. On Wednesday, Toyota announced it may soon develop a new generation of fuel-efficient passenger airplanes. If Boeing's boosters get their way, the company can grow fat and lazy at the Pentagon trough, while innovations and breakthroughs come from companies like Airbus - and ultimately, perhaps, Toyota - fighting for every sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Force Snub Good for Boeing | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...threat to the State of Israel will continue to grow as countries like Syria and Iran improve their ballistic capabilities. The threat of all-out conflict looms, with no clear path to peace. In the meantime, the Harvard community attending events such as “Breaking the Silence,” which sheds negative light on me and my peers in the Israeli army, ought to be aware of the incredible difficulty we in the State of Israel are currently facing...

Author: By Shira Kaplan | Title: Israel’s New Reality | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...school's dean, describes it. All classes are taught in English. The school as a matter of policy recruits one-third of its students from overseas, from countries as far away as Iceland and Uganda. The strategy seems to be working. Since it opened, the program has seen enrollment grow at an annual average rate of 15%. "This school is dragging Waseda kicking and screaming into the 21st century," Snowden says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class Dismissed | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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