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Decades of success led to Toyota's somersault into corporate complacency and narcissism, with the concomitant toll on flexibility. Costly, but they have to pay the price. Taiwo Danjuma, EGERKINGEN, SWITZERLAND...
...Mosley's determination to save the sport from itself that led to last summer's crisis. Frustrated by negotiations that went nowhere, Mosley tried to impose a budget cap of $64 million per team. The teams couldn't figure out which they liked less, the cap or Mosley. "Max has an expression: 'Don't wound if you don't intend to kill,'" says Martin Brundle, a former driver who now commentates on F1 for television and manages drivers. "We've all been on the receiving end of that attitude, and it tended to smother all Max's good work...
Clegg, 43 and fresh-faced, has led Britain's third party since 2007. He is multinational (his mother is Dutch; his father half Russian) and multilingual (he speaks five languages). A supporter of the European Union, he worked first at the European Commission, then as a member of the European Parliament, until he gave up being an MEP in 2004 because the traveling undermined his family life. He's a new man, and if he looks a little bleary it's probably because he's been woken by his young sons or risen early to take his wife, a high...
...this Clegg's fervent allegiance to a liberal movement that hasn't led a government since World War I and you have some idea of how distant the gates of Downing Street might appear. Yet Britain's battered Prime Minister Gordon Brown is rallying support, while his untested Conservative challenger David Cameron has watched a 20-point lead dwindle to as little as two points. With neither of the two main parties on course to win an outright majority, Clegg and his Lib Dems could wake up on May 7 holding the balance of power...
...radiation increases the chances of developing brain cancer, it should show up in long-term studies of cell-phone users. But many epidemiological studies have found no clear connection, including a 2007 Danish Cancer Society study of 421,000 cell-phone users, which led many in the media to conclude that mobiles are harmless. To date, "peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a risk," says John Walls, a spokesman for CTIA, a global wireless association. (See how to prevent illness...