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...seat. Even Carlos Ghosn, chief of Nissan, the automotive turnaround story of the decade, is experiencing a sales slump, and the company has announced plans to move its North American headquarters from Los Angeles to Franklin, Tenn., to save a few bucks. The bright side for nearby Saturn workers who may soon be out of a job: at least they now know where to send a résum?...
...richly detailed horoscope, dating from 14th century Baghdad, designed for someone born under the signs of Venus and Taurus. In the middle of the paper fragment, Venus is depicted playing a lute and sitting on a bull, Taurus; along the bottom border Mars is shown as a warrior, Saturn as an old man, Jupiter as a judge and Mercury as a scribe. Another manuscript illustration from 17th century India, Astrologers Working on a Nativity, shows a procession of musicmakers and gift bearers wending their way through palace walls toward a newborn who would grow up to be the 14th century...
...years schoolteachers have used a version of the mnemonic phrase "My Very Eager Mother Just Sent Us New Pajamas" to help kids learn the names of the nine planets in order of distance from the sun [Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto]. Now if Pluto loses its planetary status, I suppose we can get used to "My Very Eager Mother Just Sent Us Nothing." Things just won't be the same, though, without those pajamas...
...market" with the new vehicle. BMW is closer. The Bavarian company says it plans to introduce a type of mild hybrid system next year, and may extend it to the entire product line. Next up is General Motors, which plans to roll out a hybrid version of the Saturn Vue next summer and offer hybrid versions of lumbering sport-utility vehicles such as the Chevrolet Suburban by 2007. Volkswagen and Porsche also have announced plans to introduce hybrids before the end of the decade...
...comments can get downright loopy, and that's how J.P.L. often likes things. Openness to wild ideas goes back to the 1960s, when the lab established an office to dream up plans for future missions, and an engineer crunching numbers one day happened to notice that in 1977, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune would fall into a rare planetary conga line that they would not form again for 176 years. This insight set the stage for the spectacular four-planet Voyager flights of the 1970s and '80s. Today the business of blue-skying ideas has become more institutionalized with...