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...defense departments of many Western nations. Frustrated by the vulnerability of long supply lines in recent conflicts - and aware that in an end-game global war the countries holding the bulk of the world's oil and gas may not prove to be allies - Western militaries are in search of new alternative fuel sources for their tanks, vehicles, planes and ships. (See pictures...
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...followed to bring the Nano from sketchpad to showroom may prove to be much more important than its price tag. The company's engineers and parts suppliers started from scratch, rethinking every component to minimize cost and weight without sacrificing basic performance, comfort and style. As battered carmakers search for new business models to adapt to shifting, shrinking consumer demand, the Nano may point the way to the future - one that will likely revolve around smaller, more fuel-efficient and more cheaply produced vehicles. (See pictures of the Nano...
...could be as tightly constructed as this last segment. Boyle does not shy away from portraying every dimension, and every sordid detail, of his characters. Much is made of how often the characters sweat in the novel. They sweat while driving, lost in the steppes of rural Wisconsin and searching for Wright’s semi-mythical Taliesin. They sweat in the taxi driving through the sweltering heat of Tiajuana, in search of their next morphine fix. They sweat as they spend sleepless nights in jail cells, separated from their children. Much like Jonathan Swift—specifically...
...search for order, Lowell turned to specialization—not general education. It was not until World War II that Harvard established a general education curriculum. University President James B. Conant ’14 vested then-Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck with an epic task: to chair a committee that would reevaluate secondary and higher American education. The new initiative involved promoting and preserving democratic ideals. The resulting manifesto, the Red Book, not only proposed an answer for how to mold students into educated citizens, but also how to mold a more cohesive world community. Thousands...