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...manufacturing specialist who has worked on production lines at both a Detroit Three and a Toyota plant, says the problem worsened over the years as products and manufacturing inevitably got more sophisticated. Merely upgrading a Toyota, he says, requires 300 man-years of engineering. No single manager can ever understand it. "Figuring out products, markets, customers, designs, systems - what's inherent about anything complex is that it becomes impossible. You can't design it perfectly," he says. What matters, he argues, is swarming problems from every direction to create high-speed, low-cost discovery and learning. And when you extend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Detroit's Last Winter? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...buddhist-dominated Thailand, people understand the concept of a long cycle of suffering before salvation. Yet even the faithful must be tiring of the farcical merry-go-round of Thai politics. On Dec. 2, a Thai court dissolved the People Power Party (PPP) because of electoral fraud, ending Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's tenure as the country's third premier in 2008. After more than two years in political crisis, Thailand is back to square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...other end of the drill was found to be too acidic. Since then, the industry has learned how to address that problem by adding chemicals to the mix, and geologic exploration is underway again. "I think a lot of investors trust Icelanders for what they're doing. They understand the risks involved," says Zammy Sarmiento, president of Biliran Geothermal Inc., the group that won the concession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Boiling Point | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Although my testers were partial to the Zi6's 2.4-in. LCD screen (they deemed the Mino's 1.5-incher "small" even for 11-year-old eyes), they felt the Kodak unit was too confusing overall. They didn't understand the "extra buttons"--a teensy joystick and two buttons that allow you to record, play back and delete, as well as zoom or switch to lower, less-memory-consuming video quality. They abandoned the Kodak after half an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Bitty Viddies | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...consist of phone calls, e-mails and meetings, and the companies have given a PowerPoint presentation on their internal financials. "We're not negotiating with the auto companies. We're not saying to them, Here's our plan," the Obama aide said. "We're just trying to listen and understand and study a range of options so that we're ready to move quickly and immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Auto Bailout May Wind Up on Obama's Plate | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

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