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After completing his internship and graduating from Yale the following spring, Smith briefly tried his hand at an Internet start-up in Connecticut, but realized that any attempt to escape baseball would be futile...
...rating for the 400h is 29 m.p.g.--close to the 26 m.p.g. we got in more than 200 miles of test driving. In comparison, a Lexus RX 330, which is identical to the 400h but runs on a standard gas engine, got only 14 m.p.g. on our tests. At start-up and in slow city traffic, the 400h runs solely on its silent electric motors, making for a peaceful commute. The 400h handled well, accelerated quickly and quietly engaged its gas engine. Because the 400h has a power output similar to that of a 4-liter V8 engine, you never...
...numbers associated with hiring faculty and start-up packages for research, those are smaller numbers,” Buehrens said. “By anybody’s measure, Allston is going to be a very expensive undertaking...
Nowadays, a person with a parenting-inspired business concept doesn't have to take on the kind of start-up risks that Herman did. A mom-run business called Parents of Invention will take the idea, handle all the details of bringing a new product to market and give the inventors between 3% and 5% of the royalties. Los Angeles--based CEO Laine Caspi, who invented a baby carrier, receives about 200 ideas each month and has so far made 10 of them a reality. Projected sales this year: $1.5 million...
...water (one acre-foot is the amount needed to inundate one acre to the level of a foot and is roughly the quantity used annually by a family of four). Babbitt, who is fond of calling CAP his state's "last water hole," likens the effect of its start-up to the arrival of the first transcontinental railroad in 1882. Says Don Anderson, the project's chief engineer: "Without it, growth in Arizona would have to stop...