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...world economy are worth listening to. The group comprises 96 companies, including the world's second largest tea business (Tata Tea); Asia's largest software firm (Tata Consultancy Services); a steel giant (Tata Steel); a worldwide hotel chain (Indian Hotels); and a sprawling vehicle-manufacturing arm (Tata Motors) that includes a bicycle factory in Zambia and a project to make a car selling for $2,200. Since Ratan Tata became chairman in 1991, he has multiplied Tata group revenues seven times to an annual $22 billion. Since 2000, the group's market value has multiplied almost 18 times...
Time's put-down of the Ford Motor Co. was way out of line. Unlike the rental described in your story, my Ford Focus has an armrest and cruise control, plus side air bags, antilock brakes--and it gets between 32 and 34 m.p.g. I have been faithful to the company for more than 50 years because of its products, because it has more of a social conscience than other big manufacturers and because I try my best to buy American...
...that I, as an individual student, could—do anything directly about the election. Many of the faculty members were active in these campaigns, but that didn’t rub off on most of us. My public service consisted of helping form the Harvard Motor Scooter Corps of Cambridge Civil Defense, which, in case of nuclear attack, would ride out to find passable roads for fire trucks...
What's killing the sea otters? Sometimes the cause is clear: a shark bite, a bullet, an outboard motor. But about one-quarter of last year's fatalities have been traced to a pair of protozoan parasites, Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona, that are known to breed in cats and opossums. Could sea otters be dying because California cat owners are flushing used litter down the toilet...
Ralph didn't work any better than he looked. The thumb and first two fingers opened and closed like a claw, the grossest of motor skills. The third finger and pinkie, which are employed by natural hands to carry things, were frozen. Ralph's wrist didn't bend. Despite weeks of training on a computer, I had difficulty with the basic functions: my stronger outer forearm muscle kept flexing and involuntarily opening the hand--even when I was trying to close it. I had no more success with the mechanism to rotate the wrist. The simultaneous contraction of both muscles...