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...staging ground for Ford's innovation revolution is the top-secret Piquette Project. Unknown by all but the very top-level Ford executives, the program is aimed at nothing short of reinventing Detroit. It's named after the third-floor Piquette plant skunk works where Henry Ford and a group of engineers first developed the idea of the assembly line and experimented with lighter materials to create a car that could be mass-produced. The specific goals and the deadlines of the Piquette project are secret. But company officials say it harks back to Henry Ford's innovative experiments with...
...hospitalization. I am reassured to read that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands strict accountability from its grantees. Albert Fournier Amiens, France I am sick and tired of seeing bono in the news posing as a superhero saving the poor. The world is full of organizations and unknown individuals who could achieve considerably more than Bono has in the fight against poverty if they were granted a fraction of the media coverage that self-promoting rock stars get. Ali Alpkaya Ankara Seldom does a written work come along that truly deserves to be in every library and on every...
...resisted fiercely. If you want to ski on your ass, they finally told him, become a snowboarder. In his book, Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun, he claims that another local coach even sabotaged his chance for the junior Olympic team. Then, when he was 19, a still unknown Miller skied his way onto the national team. (See pictures of Bode Miller on the slopes...
...decision to reduce its funding for Davis' training because he wears on his uniform the logo of Netherlands-based bank DSB, which is not an official U.S. speed-skating team sponsor. "Speed skating has lots of potential to be a big sport," says Davis--who, although he is relatively unknown in the U.S., has a broader following in Europe, where the sport is popular. The U.S. Speedskating officials, he complains, "don't want to grow in a way where they have five or six Shani Davises." The organization's officials say they are disappointed with the comments but will support...
...frosted bottle, C?zanne-inspired label and $30-per-bottle price tag?and seven years later sold it to Bacardi for more than $2 billion; in San Diego, California. In the 1970s, Frank sensed an unquenched niche in the rambunctious U.S. college-student market and began importing the near-unknown German liqueur Jagermeister, sometimes compared to cough syrup. With the help of a cadre of pretty "Jagerettes," who poured free shots in bars, the brand soared in sales from some 500 cases in 1974 to more than 2 million last year...