Word: hybridizations
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...magazine. The articles and interviews, which are all exaggeratingly concise and dramatic, seem to have a similar effect. What is most startling about the exhibition, however, is not the grotesque pictures or the descriptive stories; but the cartoon-like symbols Gimonprez employs. A disturbing logo that looks like a hybrid between Mickey Mouse, an alien and the infamous Napster logo is dispersed throughout the exhibition...
...their wives at the Deer Cry Pavilion, a pretentious Italianate building, designed by a British architect named Josiah Conder. All this in the name of "civilization," that is, Western civilization. To be civilized was to be modern, and to be modern was to be Western. And this extraordinary new hybrid culture - not widely shared in less privileged Japanese circles, it is true - was at least partly meant to elicit positive Western views of Japan. Although dynamic, industrious, imaginative and in many ways deeply admirable, late 19th century Japanese were suffering from a severe bout of country-cousin self-consciousness...
Enter the Toyota Prius, a revolutionary gas-electric hybrid car, which is causing a flurry of excitement in California. The bubble-shaped auto is a favorite among Silicon Valley execs who hanker after the newest technology, retirees who value its great gas mileage and green-minded folks who champion its super-low emissions. Since last August, San Francisco Toyota has received orders for 200 of the $21,000 vehicles, and dozens of customers are on a three-month waiting list...
...prices have skyrocketed from $1.60 a gallon last summer to nearly $2. And the state has some of the toughest vehicle emissions regulations in the nation. Morrissey, full of environmental evangelism, has already persuaded one co-worker and one neighbor in her affluent Mill Valley suburb to go hybrid. "You always hear that the Japanese are better at copying and refining than actually creating an idea," says Morrissey. "But the Prius is an example of true innovation...
...effective program to fight climate change need not involve huge increases in energy prices or draconian rules that choke industries at the smokestacks. The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends a range of new devices, including hybrid gas-electric cars that run half the time on a traditional internal-combustion engine and the rest of the time on batteries, boosting gas mileage considerably. Also promising is the combined cycle-gas turbine that can be used in place of traditional turbines to generate electricity. The new hardware operates at up to 60% efficiency, nearly twice that...