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...useful machines. The heroes of Speed Racer and Iron Man could be the garage geeks who paved Silicon Valley with cybergold; or Hollywood's visual-effects alchemists, translating their fantasies into pixels to create gorgeous movies like these. Iron Man and Speed Racer are tributes to practical ingenuity and manual dexterity, to real American innovators like Edison and Ford, Steve Wozniak and Dale Earnhardt - to the grease monkey as genius...
...useful machines with which they're perfectly in synch. They could be the garage geeks who paved Silicon Valley with cybergold or Hollywood's visual-effects alchemists translating their fantasies into pixels to create gorgeous movies like these. Iron Man and Speed Racer are tributes to practical ingenuity and manual dexterity, to real American innovators like Edison and Ford, Steve Wozniak and Dale Earnhardt--to the grease monkey as genius...
...going to have to rely on a whole bunch of solutions.”Cischke also spoke about the impact of consumer markets on Fords’ manufacturing decisions. In particular, she contrasted the American consumer market with the European one. In Europe, 80 percent of cars are manual, which are estimated to be 10 percent more fuel efficient than automatic cars, while only eight percent are manual in America. Eighty-nine percent of cars in Europe also have engines with four cylinders or less, which is more fuel-efficient, while only 28 percent of cars in America have comparably...
...Harvard undergraduate. Through Dorm Crew, we are literally given the tools to broaden our minds, a ladder to descend from the ivory tower. Somewhere in that broom lies a life lesson that struggles to impart itself; we ought to be open enough to allow the humility of hard manual labor to take hold...
...future use of waterboarding as a technique for high-value detainees. The Attorney General has also declined to say that the technique, or other extreme techniques, are outlawed. On March 8, Bush vetoed the latest congressional attempt to force the CIA to adhere to the Army Field Manual, a rule book that prescribes mostly psychological methods of interrogation, and clearly prohibits the use of forced nudity, waterboarding, hooding and the use of military dogs. Congressional Democratic leaders have not yet announced if they plan to bring up the issue again, but they are unlikely to muster enough votes to override...