Auto racket, crime scandals taint Havana.
Two major scandals have rocked Havana recently. The first involved visiting Latin American university students who were authorized to buy imported cars. As soon as they got their permission and bought their cars, the students began selling them to Cubans, in dollars, at a profit. Athletes, artists,...

Is big bad? SUV critics hold consumers in contempt.
High and Mighty: SUVs: The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way, by Keith Bradsher, New York: PublicAffairs, 468 pages, $28 TALK ABOUT STUPIDITY! What kind of idiot would pay thousands of dollars extra for a poorly designed, uncomfortable, unsafe vehicle that guzzles gasoline...

The value of "final products" counts only itself: today's gross product is net product.
I Introduction ACCORDING TO contemporary economics, the value of a "final product," i.e., a consumer good, such as a loaf of bread, counts not only itself but also the value of all the various "intermediate products," i.e., the capital goods, that have directly or indirectly...

Balance Sheet.
Question Time Two Oregon cities refuse federal requests that they question 5,000 foreigners about terrorism. Officials in Portland and Corvallis say they cannot simply question people without cause. They argue further that police would be distracted from real live crimes during the dragnet. Global Bargaining...

Building the perfect bullpen corps: majors' best relief ensemble more than the sum of its parts.
DURABILITY. CONTROL. Flexibility. Variety. Resiliency. Power and/or trickery. And we haven't even yet gotten into the intangibles of guts, confidence and selective amnesia--all equally valuable components of a topnotch bullpen. In modern baseball, bullpens are the auto dealership sales manager, the defensive line, the "good cop." Others...

Straight talk from the top: an interview with Andy Taylor, CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
THE BLACK COLLEGIAN (TBC): Give our readers a brief background on how Enterprise Rent-A-Car was started. Your dad started the company in 1957. How big was the company then, and what strategies did he use to grow the business? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Andy Taylor: Enterprise was...

Alternative fuel vehicle resource list.
List provided by the Southern Energy & Environment Expo. Vegetable Fuels Tickell Energy Consulting Joshua Tickell 813-354-2377 www.veggievan.com Maria "Mark" Alovert Technical Instructor wrench@tinkersworkshop.org National Biodiesel Board ...

Signs of the times: as seen by our roving reporter.
In a Laundromat: Automatic washing machines. Please remove all your clothes when the light goes out. In a Department Store: Bargain Basement upstairs. In a Veterinarian's Waiting Room: Be back in five minutes. Sit! Stay! In a...

Carrot & stick: who walks the walk, who's nothing but talk.
CARROT TO The Ford Motor Company for getting more than 8 million tires recycled and then making sure the by-productsare put to good use. For instance, last June, Ford gave a $10,000 grant to a therapeutic riding program for kids at Little Brook Farm in Old Chatham,...

Suffering and smiling: Ike Oguine sits in a Lagos traffic jam and ponders on the way the private automobile isn't getting anyone anywhere. (Traffic Jam).
WHILE capitalism has speeded things up for some, others are clearly on another track. For many in developing countries, some of the tools that should enable speedy communication are themselves sources of frustration. This frustration comes in many shapes and sizes, but for those of us who...