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...plug-in hybrids as the future of the industry. What's your take on that? Hybrid technology has been around for how many years now? Yet its percentage of total vehicle sales is around 3%. It takes a very long time for these technologies to make inroads. We laud the Obama Administration's objective of wanting to get us to a point where we have lower emissions and lower fuel consumption. What we are less comfortable with is that they want to pick technology. Let the guys who actually understand these technologies get on with finding the solution...
MARK BROWN, sheriff in charge of the case, noting the existence of T-shirts and a Facebook fan club that laud Harris-Moore's elusiveness...
...remembered as the man who finally fired Bobby Knight. For years, the basketball coach's boorish behavior had embarrassed Indiana University, of which Brand was president. After Brand bounced Knight in 2000 for allegedly grabbing a student, rabid supporters of the coach burned Brand in effigy. But history will laud Brand's bravery. In 2003 he took over the NCAA, an outfit in desperate need of stricter academic standards. Though he couldn't purify college sports--can anyone?--Brand's reforms held schools more accountable by threatening to revoke athletic scholarships for poor classroom performance. Brand never looked like...
...Harvard is still a latecomer to the realm of public access education—schools like MIT and Yale have offered podcast courses through Apple’s iTunes U for years—in general, media reactions to Sandel’s television series have been positive. Most laud it for supporting freedom of information and combating the exclusivity of the Ivy League education; some even go so far as to hail such open access as the end of Old Academia...
...Indonesia Coasting to Victory Exit polls indicated that incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono notched a decisive win in Indonesia's July 8 presidential election. More than 100 million people cast ballots in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Supporters laud Yudhoyono for fighting extremism and guiding the country through the global financial crisis...