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...Science B core class “Feeding the World, Feeding Yourself.” History Professor Joyce Chaplin’s graduate seminar “American Food,” slated to be taught in the spring of 2009, serves as a model for a General Education course under United States in the World. But while food-related classes are more common, they are scattered throughout the University. The consequent lack of cross-departmental communication may be slowing the development of the field. The question remains whether food studies should stay nestled within traditional disciplines or be incoporated...
...most important issue is cutting Detroit's output to an appropriate level. "What we would tell a client who went from 30% to 20% [share] and they say, 'We're modeling now at 20%,' I'd say, 'Let's model it at 16%,'" says Conway. Scaling below capacity doesn't mean you give up on 20% or even 22% share - you can add shifts, for instance, to boost output...
...Southeast Michigan in the past four decades, as I did, you were raised among reminders that things used to be better, once, before you came along. The empty factories. The abandoned blocks in Detroit. The grade-school U.S. maps with the retro pictures, on Michigan's mitten, of Model T's and '57 Chevys. The headlines from the 1970s read like the headlines of 2008: The mayor of Detroit was in trouble. The Lions were losing. And the auto industry was disappearing...
Better Place, founded in 2007 with the encouragement of the Israeli government, allows electric car users access to charging stations and battery swap locations powered by renewable energy for a fee. The company’s model has been implemented in Israel and Denmark, and plans have been made to introduce the infrastructure to California’s Bay Area and Hawaii...
Agassi said the last important aspect of Better Place’s business plan is the adoption of a system similar to the cellular phone network business model, in which drivers pay for the miles they drive. Agassi said that in this way transportation becomes a “sustainable service” to which drivers can subscribe...