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...addition, Harvard was the first school in the Ivy League to offer women's lightweight crew. The sport is currently being added to athletic departments across the nation in order to increase numbers of women athletes...
Washington wants smaller--or at least cleaner. At the Detroit show this year, the Big Three did their save-the-earth bit by displaying some "clean" concept cars. Chrysler unveiled its ESX2, which combines lightweight construction, plastic body panels and a hybrid power train (a small diesel engine, batteries and electric motor) to get 70 m.p.g. Ford displayed a concept vehicle fabricated out of aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber that gets up to 63 m.p.g. and weighs 40% less than a Taurus. Ford promised to adapt its Windstar minivan, classified as a truck, to meet lower emissions...
Sluggish sales aside, GM is recovering much of its investment by using the EV1, which alone spawned 23 patents, as a rolling research lab. The car has one-third less aerodynamic drag than any other car on the road. Features such as magnesium frame seats and highly inflated lightweight tires are being adopted in conventional GM cars. "The payback is not going to come through sales of EV1s in the short run," says marketing director Kennedy. "GM is laying the foundation for leadership on advanced-technology vehicles 10 or 20 years from now. That surprises people. They don't expect...
DIED. EDWIN ROSARIO, 34, troubled boxer; of acute pulmonary edema that may have been caused by drugs; in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Thrice world lightweight champion, Rosario was brought low by cocaine abuse in the early 1990s...
Enter Motorola with the hot new StarTAC series of wearable cell phones. About half the size of a floppy disk and weighing just a few ounces, the StarTAC can clip right onto your clothes. Even the lightweight standard battery delivers a full hour of talk time, while thicker batteries have enough juice to rival fullsized cell phones. The StarTAC costs anywhere from $250 to $800, depending on features and activation plans...