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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...
...city fire departments are turning out hunky calendars to raise funds. New York City is the latest, but Tucson, Arizona, and South Florida have long had their own. (Tucson and Milwaukee even have women in their calendars.) "We don't want to be construed as Chippendale fire fighters," says Mike Aguilar, who heads Seattle's fund drive. There are serious reasons for the calendar: "Burns are terrible, traumatic injuries. The money we raise goes to recovery research and methods...to minimize that trauma." With the calendars, getting all hot and bothered is for a good cause...
...town owns the team in more than name. Coach Mike Holmgren likes to tell the story of one of his first visits to the grocery store after he left the 49ers to take the Green Bay job in 1992. As his cart approached that of a little old lady, she looked at him and said, "Hey, California, go out and kick some butt." Make no mistake: the city on the Fox River and Lake Michigan is not exactly paradise. Just like Bedford Falls, it has its dark side. African-American players, isolated and marked as Packers, once likened the town...
...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...