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...which has four doors and seats four adults, doesn't feel like a lightweight on the road. I drove one on an empty test track at Tata Motors' main plant in the western Indian city of Pune and found that, while the interior is spartan, the Nano handles as well as any of the other low-end minicars available in India. The brakes lack feel and there's little storage space, but the car turned heads. Our photographer drove a bright yellow Nano - this one fully equipped with air-conditioning - through the highways, cobbled avenues and side streets of Pune...
...lists and disappointed customers. But Tata Motors can't make more Nanos due to a controversy over construction of what was to be the Nano's main factory in Singur in the state of West Bengal. Last year, protests over people who were displaced from their farmland by the plant turned violent. The company was forced to abandon Singur and shift production to four existing facilities in other cities, a disruption that delayed the launch by several months. A new plant in business-friendly Gujarat will be ready at the end of 2010 with an annual capacity...
...oversee the re-engineering of a rear-wheel-drive chassis that its Holden auto subsidiary had sold in small quantities over the years in both its home market and the Middle East. The Camaro is built on the Holden platform. The car will actually be assembled at GM plant in Oshawa, Ontario, outside of Toronto...
...started my career more than two decades ago as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, working with churches to help neighborhoods that had been devastated by plant closings. Block by block, we fought to create job-training programs, improve housing conditions and help people live their lives with some measure of dignity. And eventually, I realized that I wasn't just helping other people - through service, I also found a community that embraced me, a church to belong to and the direction I'd been seeking. Through service, I found that my own story fit into...
...learned in the shadow of an empty steel plant more than two decades ago, while you can't necessarily bend history to your will, you can do your part to see that, in the words of Dr. King, it "bends toward justice." So I hope that you will stand up and do what you can to serve your community, shape our history and enrich both your own life and the lives of others across this country...