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Greenlee will drive home a different silver Honda this evening. His own car, a 1987 Ford Thunderbird, has sat unused in his garage for the past four months. During that time, Greenlee has shared 12 natural-gas Hondas with 60 strangers in an experiment called CarLink. The program is run by researchers at the University of California at Davis, who believe that car sharing can encourage mass-transit use while reducing pollution and traffic. It saves Greenlee money: he pays just $200 a month--covering insurance, fuel and maintenance--to have a Civic for himself at night and on weekends...
...next driver. No one needs car F, so I take it for a quick spin. According to Susan Shaheen, 32, the graduate student who runs CarLink, car-sharing organizations have flourished in Europe and Japan. Switzerland has 600 of them. This summer Seattle plans to launch a sharing program using 200 cars...
...nose; Gates really did talk IBM into licensing an operating system that he didn't yet own to run the first PC; and Jobs really did trust Microsoft with the Mac prototype, never believing Gates would, at least in Jobs' view, nab his best stuff for a new program called Windows...
Right now my father is vigorous, and he has a rich life. He just bought a new lawn mower--and not a self-propelled one. He rakes his leaves and rides his bicycle. A retired physics professor at Princeton, he directs and teaches in a summer program at the university and serves on the boards of several nonprofit institutions...
...article by Andrew Ferguson on school programs that teach moral values to students [EDUCATION, May 24] was predictably snide, fashionably cynical and, in at least one instance, inaccurate. Contrary to the implication in the piece, I have not just discovered "the elixir of schoolroom values." My interest in the Character Counts movement and character education in America's schools didn't start with the Littleton, Colo., murders. I've been involved in the program for six years at the state and federal levels. The impetus for character education comes from the parents. It is the second most important thing that...