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...tobacco, gambling or weapons manufacturing. Mirroring a greater trend in socially responsible investing, they are now buying stocks and leveraging pressure from the inside to promote their agendas. For instance, Mennonite Mutual Aid funds, which wants companies to be proactive in curbing HIV and AIDS, helped persuade Ford Motor Co. to report how the disease is affecting its global operations...
...NASA STICK WITH THE SPACE SHUTTLE SO LONG? Though the space shuttle is viewed as futuristic, its design is three decades old. The shuttle's main engines, first tested in the late 1970s, use hundreds more moving parts than do new rocket-motor designs. The fragile heat-dissipating tiles were designed before breakthroughs in materials science. Until recently, the flight-deck computers on the space shuttle used old 8086 chips from the early 1980s, the sort of pre-Pentium electronics no self-respecting teenager would dream of using for a video game...
...with the car. The company began life 112 years ago in London as a purveyor of automobile accessories and the name Dunhill became synonymous with the kind of high-end driving instruments the smart set bought. Company founder Alfred Dunhill?who famously declared that he sold "everything but the motor"?retailed nonessentials for the car lover, from high-tech driving goggles and dashboard clocks to driving gloves, which he introduced to the world long before the brand began selling menswear in the '70s. Now the company is tuning up its image with the help of four big-name designers, including...
...with the car. The company began life 112 years ago in London as a purveyor of automobile accessories and the name Dunhill became synonymous with the kind of high-end driving instruments the smart set bought. Company founder Alfred Dunhill - who famously declared that he sold "everything but the motor" - retailed nonessentials for the car lover, from high-tech driving goggles and dashboard clocks to driving gloves, which he introduced to the world long before the brand began selling menswear in the '70s. Now the company is tuning up its image with the help of four big-name designers, including...
...eager but would go if needed, were to draw one circle; and volunteers, two circles. I misrepresented my age, and drew two circles, signing my name. I was accepted. We were sent to Nagasaki, and in the calm waters of Shimabara Bay, we trained in maneuvering high-powered motor boats designed to run explosives into enemy landing crafts...