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...sale price of every new car. Among other things, the rules require that carmakers minimize the amount of chemicals used in the manufacture of their autos and dictate that new cars be 95% recyclable. Ford also complained that some directives cancel each other out - explaining that pedestrian safety rules will add weight to cars, while fuel efficiency directives anticipate lighter cars. Sighed a Ford spokesman: "We're piggy in the middle." But - to mix animal metaphors - is Ford crying wolf? "Think of the discussions in the late '80s about how the cost of controlling emissions would make cars more expensive...
...adventures of an idea should be entertaining. The Wisdom of Crowds is a circus of oddments and behavioral studies--for example, of big-city pedestrian flow (an unconscious art form) and highway traffic snarls (caused by hiccups of human reaction time--"a single driver who's too ready to hit the brakes can slow down an entire highway"). Surowiecki describes a 1958 experiment in which a group of law students from New Haven, Conn., were asked to consider this scenario: You have to meet someone in New York City but don't know where to meet him or when...
While Mallis lauded the idea of laying public pedestrian paths through Harvard’s future campus—a key aspect of yesterday’s recommendations—he echoed many residents’ concerns over a potential glut of student cars and University-related trucks...
...make the whole neighborhood more pedestrian-friendly, and how do you make sure that this isn’t going to cause more traffic?” he wondered aloud...
...addition to my pedestrian dabbling in the arts, my plan mandated that I pursue some sort of athletic activity. After all, as Light reports: “While varsity athletes have slightly lower grades than average, they also are, as a group, among the happiest students on campus. They have many friends and feel closely bonded to the college...