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...style instrument panel and unpainted aluminum-and-steel frame, the long, low-slung V-Rod lives up to its billing as Harley's first "performance custom" motorcycle--although a pricey one at around $17,000. (A classic hog goes for $10,000 to $15,000.) It features a 115-hp engine, designed with help from Porsche, that claims a top speed of 140 m.p.h.--without the trademark earth-rumbling noise. "We wanted to make our own statement," says Willie G. Davidson, 68, the head designer...
...mainframes whole, grinds them up and a few minutes later spits them out in quarter-size pieces. A system of magnets, screens and electrical currents separates out aluminum and steel, while the remaining mixed metals go to Noranda Inc., a copper smelter in Quebec. The metal scrap HP produces by the ton has a higher percentage of copper than ore excavated from the ground, according to Bob Sippel, Noranda's vice president of recycling. Last year the Roseville operation retrieved more than $5 million worth of gold, copper, silver, aluminum and steel...
...into people's houses and take their computers out for them," says Renee St. Denis, environmental-business-unit manager for HP. That's true. But if consumers aren't given sufficient incentive to turn their computers in, then all those recycling initiatives--not to mention all those PCs piling up in closets--could simply go to waste...
...rest of the pack, don't bother. The HP 648C produced nice text but poor images, both of which it expelled at a turtle trot. The Canon S400 took 20 to 30 sec. to warm up each time I changed a setting, then produced mostly mediocre text and graphics. And as much as I liked the simple setup and compact design of the Lexmark, its overall quality and speed were too inconsistent to push it into the winner's circle...
...whiz; in Palo Alto, Calif. Hewlett and fellow Stanford University student David Packard started their company in 1938 in a rented garage with $538. The firm's initial inventions: an automatic urinal flusher and a harmonica tuner. Its first success was selling sound-testing devices to Disney in 1939. HP entered the consumer market in 1972 with pocket calculators. Its growth and capital launched Silicon Valley, but Hewlett seemed prouder of HP's management style, stressing creativity and teamwork. Billionaires Hewlett and Packard rejoined the company in 1990, when they saw it had become unprofitable and stagnant--not the "HP...