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...their credit, not every Harvard inventor is stinking rich--at least not yet. Daniel H. Schumann '94 is following his father, Helmut W. Schumann '41, in turning invention into a career. Papa Schumann held patents for the high-speed motors that powered instruments on US bombers during World War II. Son Daniel got his start in the Engineering Department; his junior project offered a 1984-ish solution for office building security. It proposed connecting a booth to a building's entrance. The entrance would be password-protected and impenetrable until the booth's door was secured. The chamber's claustrophobic...
...Department has set as one of its goals todevelop and prioritize new patrol andinvestigative strategies to address the crimes ofstreet robbery, residential burglary("housebreaks"), commercial burglary, andlarcenies from motor vehicles," Watson wrote inhis commentary on the report. The commissioner wasnot available for comment yesterday...
...Japan, putting your company on the acquisition block is so shameful that the expression for it--miuri--means "selling your body." So it must have been excruciating last month for Yoshikazu Hanawa, president of Nissan Motor Co., to publicly offer for sale a controlling interest in Japan's second largest automaker. What must have been even more humiliating is that when Nissan's suitors looked under the hood, they became even less interested in this clunker, with its $22 billion in debt and a lineup of flashless cars. The word around the car industry is that the $49 billion company...
...Accord ever saw a drafting table. Nissan's success gave weight to the myth that Japanese companies were run by enlightened executives who worked in frictionless synchronicity with workers to produce superior cars. In his best-selling book The Reckoning, David Halberstam suggested that U.S. industry, namely the Ford Motor Co., would be consigned to a never-ending game of catch-up with the likes of Nissan, a company driven by the Japanese "demonic need for excellence...
...Today in a press briefing, Ford Motor Co. rolls out the biggest sports utility vehicle to hit the road yet: The Ford Excursion, a 3.5-ton, 19-foot-long behemoth, coming to your nearest showroom this fall. The unveiling is no surprise, says TIME Detroit correspondent Nichole Christian: ?It was only a matter of time before someone attempted to topple GM,? the current reigning colossus king and maker of the Chevrolet/GMC Suburban. The reason for the bigger-is-better drive is strictly bottom line. ?Consumers have been saying these big vehicles are what they want,? says Christian, and automakers have...