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Skeptics--"pistonheads," Ballard calls them--say the company is decades away from making fuel-cell cars affordable, if it ever can. But some of the largest automakers are betting on a hydrogen future. DaimlerChrysler and Ford have paid $750 million for 35% of Ballard Power Systems, vowing to market fuel-cell cars within five years. Since hydrogen is difficult to store, current research focuses on fueling the cars with methanol, from which hydrogen would be extracted on board. That process would produce pollution, but not nearly as much as conventional engines give...
Kalyanji V. Shah and Anandji V. Shah were two small town brothers who lucked out to become two of the biggest incidental music composers to jam sitars in Bollywood, India, the largest commercial film industry in the world. During Bollywood's Golden Age in the 50s and 60s, the traditional Indian family drama gave way to the Masala (mixed spice) film, a particulars brand of brownsploitation filled, as the liner notes entice, "with Kung-fu, gunfights, car chases, loose women, badass hoods in smoke-filled opium dens and of course the good guys." This collection of never-been-released music...
...creator of the mischievous storybook monkey Curious George, bequeathed 20 percent of her estate to PBHA. Her will divided the remaining 80 percent among 15 other non-profit organizations, with WGBH and the Longy School of Music receiving the next largest shares...
...Kaos' efficient arrangement and economy of illumination, the Lehman gallery itself becomes a built space worthy of investigation. Both Sugimoto's and Couturier's works lie outside the main room, luring viewers inward, where the largest photographs--some nearly six feet tall--line the dark gray walls of the smallish room. Lighting is wisely kept at a minimum. In theory, this would allow the photographs themselves to suffuse the room with patches of brightness. While a ghostly luminescence does seem to be emitted by some of the prints, supplemental track lighting glances off the glass of the smaller works, casting...
...largest challenges for these underrepresented musicians is finding a place to play. Over the past few years, houses and other scattered campus buildings have sacrificed their space, usually and thankfully fee-free, for these performers whose presence endears the campus music scene with credibility. Last Friday, The Advocate offered up the necessary space and time for a trio of rock groups, giving students an earshot of what lurks beneath the status quo of Sanders Theatre fare...