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...give up their four-wheelers, the challenge is to reduce the tail-pipe emissions that contribute to everything from respiratory distress to global warming. "We have to build a sustainable transportation technology that doesn't ask people to sacrifice," says John Wallace, executive director of Ford's Think Group. Lighter-weight materials and cars can help reduce overall energy consumption, but the key is to find a better power source...
...more immediate approach to developing eco-friendly cars involves reducing their all-around energy requirements in the first place. The steel that most cars are made of could be replaced by carbon-fiber polymers, which are lighter and more aerodynamic, as well as easy to make. The body panels on the diminutive Smart car from DaimlerChrysler are made of a recyclable thermoplastic alloy called Xenoy that is several times lighter than steel and helps the car get up to 65 m.p.g. Some 116,000 Smarts were sold last year in Europe and Japan, a 16% increase over 2000. But Americans...
...skyscrapers. From the washed-up triads of The Longest Summer to the street urchin of Little Cheung, Chan's characters scrape the depths to survive, aided by just enough street humor to make life tolerable. With its menagerie of losers leavened by twisted romance, Hollywood Hong Kong is a lighter film, literally, than its predecessors. By day the sun shines through the tin roofs and sultry shacks of the Chus' shantytown in the New Territories, and by night a lunar white shines from the modern apartments of nearby Hollywood Plaza. That's where the enterprising, Shanghai girl Tong Tong (Zhou...
...returned to Harvard last spring at the end of the cancer treatment cycle, taking a lighter course load while still receiving radiation treatment. He had living in Peabody Terrace with his wife, whom he married on March...
...group's alleged mastermind, Michalis Economou, was captured by police who stormed his home island of Lipsi, 250 km east of Athens. The professor's real name is believed to be Alexandros Giotopolous. The authorities were led to him by 17 November terrorists who confessed in return for lighter sentences. Police also confirmed that a gun confiscated from a 17 November safe house was the Colt .45 revolver used to kill a British diplomat in June 2000. MEANWHILE Good Vibrations For Babar Fans Convinced of elephantine intelligence, scientists in Namibia have discovered that - despite their big ears - elephants may talk...