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Automakers have strong incentives not to ramp up hybrid production too quickly. Hybrids are technologically complex and costly and require the retraining of service technicians. Toyota and Honda insist they make money from each sale, but those profits are meager compared with what they earn from conventional cars and light trucks, especially their luxury brands. The Big Three--Ford, GM and Chrysler--are even more reliant on SUVs and big pickups for profits, and if hybrids eat into sales of conventional models, the industry would be maiming a critical cash cow. So while auto executives talk of a greener future...
...Bushes are no exceptions. Fifteen of the 19 September 11th hijackers were Saudis; but when Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador who is close to the First Family, dined with the President in the White House two days after the attacks, the mood was collegial, not angry. In the Iraqi ramp-up and occupation, the Administration has rewarded its Saudi and Texas supporters with billions in rebuilding contracts. As Blaine Ober, president of an armored vehicle company, tells Moore: the Iraqi adventure is ?good for business, bad for the people...
...practice such as Huyghe’s, which has made use of photography, film, video, sculpture, architecture, and new media, corresponds closely with the panorama one gets as he or she descends from the third floor landing, down the ramp to Prescott Street...
Bells however did not make it into the final design, and the earliest plans feature not a spiral, but a smooth ramp weaving through the middle of the Carpenter Center. Likewise, the path along the Carpenter Center’s ramp is not animated by the black and white checkerboard terrazzo floors Le Corbusier initially intended for the second and third floor studios visible through the large glass windows of this interior space. But the ramp still provided a view into the life of the building, so visitors would understand its purpose and the practice of art was immediately visible...
...connect Harvard’s architectural past—the buildings and diagonal paths of the Yard—with what was then thought to be the university’s future, along Prescott Street and beyond. Yet Harvard expanded in other directions, and only retrospectively can the ramp be seen as an idealistic move on the part of the architect, that, like the Carpenter Center itself, has evolved in purpose in the 40 years since its completion...