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...will have a fuel-cell car on the road--a vehicle that will cruise silently, spit drinkable water from its tail pipe and provide power to your house when you plug it into the garage. In the meantime, auto manufacturers are putting nanotechnology to work in other ways. Toyota was the first to experiment with strong, lightweight nanocomposite materials in the late 1980s, and U.S. automakers are starting to move nanocomposites out of the lab and into vehicles. General Motors is using advanced plastics to make step assists for 2002 GMC Safari and Chevrolet Astro vans. The new materials...
What is a president's life worth? In Afghanistan it may prove to be as little as a pair of secondhand Toyota Corolla hatchbacks. That's the payoff Afghan intelligence officials believe was offered to Abdur Rehman, the man who attempted to assassinate president Hamid Karzai almost three weeks ago. The cars are said to have been waiting for Rehman across the border in Pakistan should he have succeeded and survived his bid to kill Karzai. He did neither. Instead, Rehman was gunned down after opening fire on the president's car on September 5, missing his target but wounding...
...belief it needed to go it alone on everything, P&G is much more open to partnering with and learning from outsiders. One of Lafley's chief lieutenants, global-marketing officer James Stengel, occasionally meets with his peers at a range of other companies, from Kraft and Nestle to Toyota and Gucci, to keep abreast of new marketing trends--something that would not have happened at Procter just a few years ago. "In the old days, they kept us almost entirely in the dark," says Tom Kelley, general manager of leading design firm IDEO, which is studying people's bathroom...
Support for fuel-cell cars is accelerating faster than a Corvette. Every U.S. automaker has demonstrated a prototype version, and full-scale production models are expected to come out within the next 10 years as costs drop. Before the big roll-out, Toyota and Honda plan to bring small test fleets to market in the U.S. sometime next year, and Ford says it will follow in 2004. To speed the debut of the fuel cells, President Bush is proposing tax breaks and other industry incentives...
...Toyota pickup emerges from the gates of a mud-walled fort outside the Afghan city of Gardez, barrels down the road, and weaves through barricades bristling with grenade launchers and Soviet-era machine guns. The vehicle slams to a halt and an American named Charlie jumps out, his auburn beard and gold-framed Oakleys flashing in the sun. I ask him what he's doing in this rugged, dust-coated part of Afghanistan. He answers, "I work for the government...