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VantagePoint as well as other top venture-capital firms are betting big on just that. What has these investors excited is that the rules of the auto industry are changing. Radical new car designs using lightweight materials and utilizing new-style power plants are becoming more affordable. Technology--computer-controlled battery packs, with power-storage systems that use nanotechnology--may soon become cheap enough to allow upstarts to compete with the Big Three...
...guards, and the coach who discovered Peter still plods along in obscurity, living in a tiny one-bedroom shack behind a palm-wine bar. Indeed, Coach Ade Young knows better than most just how little glamor is involved in boxing in Nigeria. A former national champion himself (1970 super lightweight), Young has spent decades traveling the countryside on the backs of trucks or on his motorcycle, recruiting the next generation of contenders...
Radcliffe lightweight crew battled to live up to the high expectations that haunt a top-five nationally ranked crew stacked with young talent. The Black and White held its own in the East and heads to Camden, N.J. this weekend to cap the season at the IRA National Championships.“The team was adjusting to a new coach, and a few injuries kept some of our very strong rowers out of action this year, which is unfortunate since last year’s freshman boat was so strong,” senior Naomi Ford said...
This season has been one of learning and building for the Harvard lightweight crew team. The varsity eight won just two dual races this season—against Penn and MIT—and failed to make the Grand Final at Eastern Sprints for the first time in the history of the competition.“I think [Sprints] was a really disappointing finish to the season for all our boats, because it was a little bit worse than what we wanted to do,” junior coxswain Kevin He said...
...amazing showing; I have incredible respect for them,” Kharazzi said. “They’ve been a powerhouse for as long as I’ve been around. They set the bar for everybody else. They and Princeton are pushing really hard and making lightweight rowing faster and faster every race. It’s amazing to be a part of that and they definitely came out this weekend and showed what they could...