Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep up, ski makers must constantly improve their wares. Salomon recently launched its SnowBlade, creating a hybrid that captures the thrills of skiing, in-line skating and snowboarding. As Carl Helmetag, CEO of Head USA observes, "Snowboarding opened a whole new image of fun, of carving through powder and trees, and these new skis answer that need in skiing. You can hear people on these skis whoop and holler. It's an incredible thing...
...humble soldier, slipped out of his summer palace, with his family and some bodyguards. For two weeks the party traveled over the highest mountains on earth, dodging Chinese planes and moving only under the cover of darkness, until at last, suffering from dysentery and on the back of a hybrid yak, the Dalai Lama arrived in India and began a new life in exile...
...will unveil a prototype gas-electric hybrid in January. For automakers wary of as radical a break from the ICE-age as all-electric cars, hybrids offer a compromise. They don't need an extensive public-charger network to overcome a limited range because the batteries are supplemented by a small gasoline engine. Toyota has thrown down the gauntlet by pricing its hybrid, the Prius, at $16,500 in Japan--about a quarter below production cost. The car, which gets 66 m.p.g., could be available in the U.S. within a year. Global warming will force "a slow phase...
TAKE THE T-BIRD AWAY After 80 years of dominance by the internal-combustion engine, a new kind of automobile is on the way. Several major auto manufacturers are designing hybrid electric cars that have twice the fuel economy and half the carbon-dioxide emissions of today's vehicles. The sticker price is admittedly a few thousand dollars higher but is largely offset by lower fuel bills. Toyota plans to bring the first such car to the market in Japan this week, and other carmakers will soon follow suit (see following story...
Despite these defective tracks, purchasing this album is completely justified simply based upon No Doubt's "Oi to the World." Gwen Stefani and her mates rip roar through this punk/ska hybrid written by the Vandals. With their contribution, No Doubt energize A Very Special Christmas 3. The song explodes with a catchy bass line and is driven forward by Stefani's singing and horns blaring the sounds of Christmas. In under three minutes, No Doubt will have your Christmas party jumping. The manic performance of "Oi to the World" represents what the holiday season is all about...