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...Westie and a manual laborer. Having been retrenched from his factory job, Luc is also part of that exclusive tribe in Australia known as the unemployed (5% of the workforce, if you believe the headline unemployment rate is a reliable guide). In an early scene Luc goes to a motor dealership to apply for a job. "Are you a Holden or a Ford man?" asks the geeky employer. "Holden," says Luc, which to local audiences will mark him as one of a certain breed (to the non?petrol head, it's akin to telling twins apart). Then there...
...months later, in 1998, Rusty came across a newsletter by an itinerant evangelist named Michael Woroniecki, whose advice had influenced him in college. Woroniecki was selling a motor home converted from a 1978 GMC bus that he, his wife and kids had used for their traveling crusade. Andrea and Noah, 4, preferred the bus to the trailer, so Rusty bought it. Noah and John slept in "the hole," a luggage compartment accessible from the cabin through a trapdoor. The 350 sq. ft. of living space would also house Paul, who would be only 17 months old when brother Luke...
...adult stem-cell research point to progress on everything from spinal-cord injuries to diabetes. Scientists at the University of Minnesota have used umbilical-cord-blood stem cells to improve some neurological function; in a paper published last month, Dr. Carlos Lima in Portugal wrote about restoring some motor function and sensation in a few paralyzed patients. At a recent conference of researchers from around the world, a team from Kyoto University in Japan reported success in taking a skin cell, exposing it to four key growth factors and turning it into an embryo-like entity that produced stem cells...
Carlos Ghosn is the CEO of Nissan Motor Co. of Japan and Renault S.A of France, which have benefited from a six-year cross-ownership alliance. This week, Ghosn was in the U.S. for talks with struggling General Motors, to test GM's appetite for forming a three-way alliance. Ghosn is perhaps the automotive industry's most accomplished executive, having pulled both Nissan and Renault out of nose dives. On his way to Detroit, he stopped in New York City to talk with TIME's business editor Bill Saporito. Here are his views on the potential GM hookup...
...coach. Of course, my duties are of a rather limited sort. I do not hold wide discretion in running practices, setting lineups, or, really, in much of anything. Nonetheless, my responsibilities differentiate me from the athletes in a way that I had not previously experienced: my position in the motor boat called a “launch,” while often as little as 10 feet away, feels quite a tad more distant...