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Nissan may be losing the technology race too. The company plans to launch its first hybrid model next year, about a decade after Toyota put hybrids on the market. Nissan's tardiness is no accident; Ghosn has long believed that hybrids are money pits for manufacturers. Still does. "I'm skeptical of the business case," he says. Nonetheless, Nissan is playing catch-up in a hot automotive area. Hybrid sales overall are booming, up 23% this year, and even Porsche and BMW are getting into...
...planning stage or on the assembly line. The Armada and Titan are scoring better in Consumer Reports surveys. "We're putting in the resources," Ghosn says. "It takes time, but we're working on it." He's also promising to smooth out the product cycle, aiming to launch models on a more regular basis, and he says Nissan will eventually sell diesels in the U.S., offering fuel-economy gains similar to those of hybrids...
...Shawn Carter) seemed to know he had cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the Ur-rap narrative--make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers diamond mine--and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mike, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra--another vocalist who made...
...Shawn Carter) seemed to know he had cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the ur-rap narrative-make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers mine-and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mic, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra-another vocalist who made callousness...
...time to charitable causes with personal resonance. He recently started an organization called Hostage UK, which offers support to families of hostages. This week he plans to return to Lebanon to work with children in Palestinian refugee camps. And at the end of the month, he will help launch a telephone hotline for trauma victims in Britain. "We all have difficult experiences," Waite says, "but suffering needn't destroy us. It's possible for something creative to emerge from...