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...first solution, a few years ago, was battery-powered electric cars, like Ford's cute little Think model. But electric cars have less range than gas-powered cars, and it's hardly convenient to recharge the batteries. The newer gasoline-electric hybrid cars, like the Toyota Prius and Honda's hybrid Civic, recharge themselves and go much farther on a gallon of gas than do conventional cars, but they aren't pollution free...
...coming of the railroad from Paris through Lyon and Marseilles. About a century later, it was decadence and crime, a subject that sufficiently aroused English novelist and long-time Nice resident Graham Greene to write his famous polemic J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice. Kanigel has compiled a hybrid, neither a lightweight beach book nor a dry work of scholarship. Instead, High Season in Nice is a lively contribution to the literature of travel history. A writing teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he manages to evoke the warm, seductive lure of Nice in the 19th century...
...took time-and a feeling of not quite belonging at an Asian students' club-for Ferronato to finally realize that she is neither Japanese nor white. She is both. "Now I believe in the theory of hybrid vigor," she says. "A specimen derived from two different species has the strongest traits of both sides...
...plants, and theories are not proofs. Sacramento, as a city, is still searching to find its best self, its strongest traits. Single-race parents of mixed-race children can offer guidance to their kids but not always full understanding. Sacramento is on a similar, unchaperoned journey. Will hybrid theory hold? Who can tell? But the blossoms will be something...
...gazes down the rows of juvenile trees, each worth thousands of dollars at maturity, with a satisfied grin. The experimental lumber crop has survived the harsh North Korean winter and is flourishing in the loamy soil. "The paulownia loves this," he says. Glancing at another leafy plant, a new hybrid, he confides, "We're going to let the Dear Leader name...