Technology Review: January 1997
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A Practical Road to Lightweight Cars
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Sure, we could make the leap to a plastic "supercar" but who could afford to buy it? The auto industry can get just as far, and achieve lower costs, by taking one step at a time.
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- Getting Into the Swing
- Companies hoping to combine environmental good deeds with sensible business practice need predictable, consistent, and timely signals from regulators.
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Features
- Winning Through Cooperation
- The head of Sematech, the pioneering joint venture created to bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry, talks about the direction of U.S. research and development and the power of collaborative thinking.
- Ehrlichs´ Fables
- The public hears fantastic tales that all is well with the environment and government regulations stifle economic growth. Two prominent environmental scientists argue that promoters of this "don´t worry be happy" point of view have their heads in the sand
- Oral Ecology
- Dental researchers are making significant strides in identifying the microorganisms that colonize the mouth. To head off serious decay and disease, scientists are developing tools that prevent these microbes from gaining a foothold.
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Columns
- Literary Letdown
- Why is technology so conspicuously absent from the roster of the century´s greatest books?
- Welfare "Reform" Backfires
- The new welfare law creates a major disincentive to invest in productivity-enhancing technology and worker training.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology