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...DEKA Research in Manchester, N.H. "It is still very energy intensive to move a 2,000- or 3,000-pound machine." His solution: the Segway, the recently unveiled high-end scooter that goes up to 13 m.p.h., is powered by an electric motor and runs on just a nickel's worth of electricity a day. The batteries today are standard nickel- metal hydride and nickel-cadmium, but the scooters could easily be switched over to a hydrogen-based power source. One of the $8,000 machine's coolest features is its steering and braking system, which uses a series...
...National Firearms Tracing Center in Falling Water, W.Va., believe that the demand for Bryco wares is driven by teenagers and young adults who like the guns' menacing looks, ample 10-round magazines and rock-bottom prices. Bryco semiautomatics, which can be had in matte black or shiny nickel finish, retail for less than $100 new, and for as little as $55 used. By contrast, Ruger 9mm's are more reliable, higher quality weapons. They're favored by law enforcement officers, well-heeled target shooters and collectors - and adult crooks as well - and cost about...
...first restaurant jobs, the staff pooled tips, which didn't seem fair to a hard worker like him. Within a month, he had moved to another restaurant, where he got to keep every cent he earned. "There seems to have been a fanaticism about getting every last nickel. That was his Achilles' heel," says Marc Feigen, managing partner of Katzenbach Partners, a consulting firm in New York City, who got to know Kozlowski through a business-school leadership program...
...paperback edition of "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by TIME contributor Barbara Ehrenreich is being published this month by Holt...
STAN STEVENS: (rises heroically from the audience as several students light themselves on fire in protest) Well, we used to want a living wage of $10.68 per hour. But the Living Wage Campaign just changed its name to “The Campaign to Get Every Nickel We Can From Harvard ’Cause a Living Wage Ain’t Good Enough and Who Gives a Hoot About Consistency Anyway?...