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...nothing to do with one another," he says. BMW's rapid sales expansion in the past few years provides some economies of scale, he says. He points out that the firm is also pooling its resources with other manufacturers, developing engines for the Mini together with Peugeot and hybrid-engine components together with Mercedes. Looking around the world, he makes a sharp distinction. Toyota, the world's biggest and most profitable car company, "is strongly process driven," he says. BMW, by contrast, "is more product driven--and I wouldn't want to bet on who will be more successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BMW Drives Germany | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...discomfort of a traditional bicycle, take another look. Many of today's models come with bigger seats and higher handlebars--easing the strain on bottoms and backs--and even automatic gear shifting. Features like these have helped create a whole new line of bikes, known as hybrid or comfort, the latter word particularly appealing to older riders. The very hottest part of the market is road bikes, which also appeal to boomers who may be giving up on yesterday's phenomenon--less comfortable mountain bikes, a category in which sales have tailed off dramatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Away | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

Carter has successfully identified the hot social science du jour: Zant was a celebrity economist, a hybrid of Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Freakonomics genius Steven Levitt. Zant was still hung up on Julia, and he left behind some coded clues for her to indicate who bumped him off. Meanwhile, the U.S. President is running for re-election, and Lemaster may have some dirt on him--they were college roommates--and the Carlyles' brilliant daughter Vanessa is obsessed with a cold case from 30 years ago involving a white girl who may or may not have been killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black and Blue-Blooded | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...That maverick streak comes naturally to the driven Yamanaka. Many Japanese scientists, even the best ones, can seem detached and dreamy. Though he has only worked in academia, Yamanaka by contrast has the no-nonsense air of the hybrid researcher/entrepreneur, a type that plays a big role in American stem-cell science. "He used to be an orthopedic surgeon, so he has a good sense in connecting his research to a practical application," says Yoshiki Sasai, a stem-cell scientist at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe. "He's like a venture [capitalist]. He couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead of the Curve | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...don’t believe we will ever accomplish a complete digitalization of all that’s in our physical collections,” Cline says. “I think we’ll always have a hybrid relationship of using the things in the manner in which they were originally published [as well as] their digital surrogates...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Libraries Go Digital, And Books Go On | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

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