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...merely "competitive" with Asian carmakers but instead must build "the best" vehicles. He also probes deeper: "We have to rebuild our relationships with customers," says Reuss, who was in charge of GM's engineering organization before his promotion and now openly volunteers that he is disappointed by GM's poor showing in the recent Consumer Reports rankings of vehicle quality and dependability. Reuss blames the bad rankings on an internal GM culture in which employees were afraid to challenge the status quo or even make suggestions. "That has to change," he says. (See the best business deals...
...fall term of 2008, she took Engineering Sciences 147: “Idea Translation: Effecting Change through the Arts and Sciences.” Then, in the summer of 2009, she took her final project for the class—a vertical farming system designed to help the urban poor in Africa, called “vertigrow”—to Kenya, and she plans to continue work on it between graduation from Harvard and medical school...
...lida Arredondo paused after that first paragraph. She thought of Alex and her husband Carlos and her nephew at Fort Hood. She thought about the long parade of the poor who arrive each day at her work seeking care, and she thought about the fact that she was a member of a Gold Star family...
...taught since a can bomb explosion severely damaged the building in November 2008. The wooden doors were shattered, and the walls cracked, making the brick building unsafe for students. Of the 250 students, only 50 had families with enough money to send them to the next village. "We are poor people," said one father in Dwarika, whose children stay home, grazing cattle. "Those who are not able, how can they send...
...Minister Manmohan Singh has made development in Naxal-affected areas - including education - a priority, but the attacks and occupation threaten to undo what limited progress his government had made. In the Aurangabad district of Bihar, for example, the government approved about $28,600 to build a residential school for poor girls in late 2008. Once 10 police officers occupied part of the school this year, no family would enroll their daughters, and the school has yet to open. (See pictures of Singh at President Obama's state dinner...