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...designers are turning it, ever more conscious of their increasing influence. "We're not here just to shape a car--we're cultural architects," says Freeman Thomas, who collaborated with Mays on the Beetle and designed the revolutionary Audi TT Coupe before being hired away by DaimlerChrysler this summer. The language of design is all about connecting with people. Or, as Mays says, "it's the battle for their heartstrings...
...magazine: last year, while he was still a national correspondent at Newsweek, he made our pages after winning a contest that crowned him Washington's Funniest Celebrity. The joke's on the Capitol, because his new job is working as TIME's deputy Washington bureau chief. Cooper will help shape coverage of the 2000 campaign while continuing to write about politics. Fortunately, this will not require complete sobriety. As demonstrated by his piece on George Bush in this week's Notebook section, Cooper is lending the humor he has honed as a stand-up comic. "Matt works in clubs...
...weeks ago, Bollinger and William Bowen, co-author of The Shape of the River, an influential book about affirmative action on campus, briefed Ford about Michigan's affirmative-action procedures, which have been reviewed to ensure that they comply with Supreme Court rulings. For example, Michigan's law school does not set numerical targets for minority students. Instead, in addition to grades and test scores, it relies heavily on letters of recommendation, the applicant's essay and evidence of leadership ability. The number of minority students who enter the law school varies greatly from year to year. Surveys show there...
...plutonium generators, says physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of Earth's radiation belts, "there is no practical source of electrical power for spacecraft that go to the outer planets." Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory report that Cassini, having already flown more than a billion miles, is in excellent shape. All systems are operating well, and the craft is on course for a flyby of home...
...week's end, controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported that Cassini, having already flown more than a billion miles, was in excellent shape. All systems were operating well, and the craft was on course for a flyby of home...