Word: minis
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...This was not a principle objective—to establish learning [centers] that would be mini Harvards,” says Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, who was Harvard’s provost when the University began contemplating international centers in the late 1990s...
...schools with ‘insurgents,’ I call them—former fellows that have gone out and first they were guerrillas,” he said. “Now they’re established people teaching these courses. And now there are also these mini-centers all over which we don’t try to control. We’re kind of a catalyst.” As the last panel ended, Applbaum found evidence that the center still has its work cut out for it. “Twenty years isn?...
...them sportier, more technologically sophisticated cars geared for younger buyers. Mitsubishi automotive designer Akinori Nakanishi likens the company's new Mitsubishi i to an iPod Nano on wheels, down to the bright colors. (A deluxe version comes with a docking port for a Nano and a satellite navigation system.) Mini design might sound like dull work-tight budgets, less room for bells and whistles-but Nakanishi says his team welcomed the challenge of coloring within the lines. "It's like baseball," he says. "The reason why baseball is fun is because you have rules. Playing around with the restrictions...
...With fuel prices likely to remain high and awareness of the environment growing globally, small, efficient cars are beginning to gain traction not just in Japan but all over the world. For example, DaimlerChrysler plans next year to begin selling its two-passenger Smart mini in the SUV-loving U.S. At the same time, most of the world's major automakers expect to produce low-cost subcompact cars for growing middle classes in China, India and other developing countries. Yet the market for kei is likely to remain largely restricted to Japan. That's partly because profit margins...
...activism, but Yolanda King, the eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, arrived in Montgomery, Ala., just two weeks before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus there. A social activist, motivational speaker and actress--she played Parks in the 1978 mini-series King--Yolanda was the most visible family member during this year's Martin Luther King Day--the first since her mother's death last year. She collapsed, of a suspected heart problem, after giving a speech in Santa Monica, Calif...