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...Advancing battery technology is] the most important thing we can do to move toward more electrification. But it is just one piece of a solution. Clearly, the solution that is appealing is one based on electric vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Alan Mulally | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...decline of the networks is of course a bad thing. For the networks. But for me as a critic and you as a viewer, the important question is, Are there better shows on TV or not? The answer is - and has been for years - yes. More important, the answer is yes for precisely the same reasons that the big broadcast networks are fading. (There's also more bad TV on the air because there's more of everything. Unless it bothers you that other people are watching bad TV, this is also not your problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's to the Death of Broadcast | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...think the new Taurus rocks. It's a very personal thing to me. When I was still at Boeing, Don Petersen, a former Ford chairman, asked me if I wanted to meet the Taurus team. So when I arrived at Ford, the first thing I wanted to see was, How's it going with the Taurus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Alan Mulally | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...thing about being optimistic, though, is that it takes hard work - and that's a drag. It's an active process, say psychologists, through which you force yourself to see your life a certain way. Indeed, the leading optimism and happiness experts consider themselves born pessimists. But if they have learned over time and with lots of practice to become more hopeful, take heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Primer for Pessimists | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...much hunt in it, though. If the agents sight a smuggler's boat, it's game over - the feds' boats are faster, their drivers better trained and their guns bigger, Hill explains. Typically the smugglers just surrender, as their cell phones and BlackBerrys fly overboard. "The first thing we'll see are little black things going 'splash, splash, splash,'" he says. Should boats escape notice on the water, overnight lookouts now stand watch at Torrey Pines Beach. "It's cat and mouse," Hill says. "We watch them. They watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching for Immigrants Off California's Coast | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

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