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Roller coasters are supposed to scare you, make you scream and maybe leave your stomach 300 ft. up in the air. But when you hop onto one, you should feel as safe as if you were climbing onto a city bus. That is the import of a decision last week by California's Supreme Court, which toughened safety standards for amusement-park rides by ruling that they should abide by the same standard applied to modes of transportation like buses and airplanes...
...should be easy enough for Cho to recognize the secret of Hyundai's success. The South Korean company is following much the same formula that Toyota used decades ago to overcome its "cheap Asian import" stigma and become one of the world's most respected brands. When Hyundai first entered the U.S. market in 1986, its Excel sedan--an econobox with a $4,995 price tag--was an instant hit with frugal buyers. But customers soon discovered they were getting what they paid for: Excels were prone to quality-control problems and frequently needed to have parts replaced. Sales tanked...
...wheelers, current gasoline consumption could be cut by up to a half. If we increased the average fuel economy of our cars by a mere 8 miles per gallon, a far cry from the 50 miles per gallon efficiency increases that hybrids promise, we would no longer need to import any oil from the Persian Gulf...
Recipient of last year's Best Book award at the prestigious comics festival in Angouleme, France, this French import is an emotion-packed story about a burned-out photographer struggling to connect with the world and a woman. It becomes a book about family history, class struggle, guilt and forgiveness. Charmingly drawn, from the vibrant colors of the French countryside to the dreary suburbs of Paris, and filled with endearing characters, Larcenet's Ordinary Victories has all the attraction and dislocation of a trip abroad...
Then there's the resuscitating of the rumbustious rednecks in a new Dukes of Hazzard. Lest you think a big-screen Dukes has no social import, Bill Gerber, the film's producer, explains the project's inspirational gestation. "After 9/11," he says, "I wanted to come up with a real red-blooded Americana movie. And I thought, A movie about the Dukes of Hazzard is exactly what I'm talking about." Director Jay Chandrasekhar insisted that the film have "three things at its core. The car has got to fly. The Dukes had to be tough and rebellious. Daisy...