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...Detroit suburbs that probably won't yield vehicles until 2010. So the carmakers are looking for incremental improvements in software, electronics, battery storage and even the internal combustion engine itself to make hybrids even more efficient. That latter includes high-compression combustion engines that run without spark plugs. Mike Gauthier, director of corporate technology for Siemens VDO, an auto electronics company in Auburn Hills, Michigan, says future hybrids also will use more sophisticated combustion engines as well as more complex electrical components. "The beauty of hybrids is they benefit from any improvement in the internal combustion engine or storage batteries...
...MIKE VARADY Los Angeles...
...could this happen? Politicians neglected to put money into pension plans, made poor investments, handed out extraordinarily generous retirement packages and gave special treatment to their fellow politicians. As San Diego city attorney Mike Aguirre put it, "What has happened is that the pension plan has somewhat become a personal-benefit slush fund for council members and senior officials." Not only did high-ranking San Diego officials give themselves preferential treatment for their pensions, they also distributed outsize benefits to city workers. A department director with 39 years of service collects $148,000 a year for life; an assistant port...
...Mike Wallace, 87, honed his style in the 1950s on Night Beat, where the host, cigarette smoke swirling in the air, grilled the guest on a dimly lit set. In 1968, he joined a new show called 60 Minutes, and helped change TV journalism forever. He met with TIME's Jim Kelly to talk about his new book, Between You and Me, his interview style and his epitaph...
...City”) did such a wonderful job on the earlier (and best) seasons of the original “Law and Order,” especially when paired with George Dzundza back in season 1 (a must have DVD, by the way). He reprises his role as Det. Mike Logan in this series, and the presence of the still-beautiful Sciorra (Detective Carolyn Barek) shouldn’t hurt. But it just feels like there’s something missing with this pairing—gone are those witty scene-ending quips from Noth’s days...