American Cars
The Detroit auto show is on, and American car manufacturers are planning to stop the 48-year decline of their US car share to foreign rivals, who now have 55% of the US passenger car market. There's a record number of new car models debuting at Detroit this week, all hoping to reverse the downward spiral. Among them are: Cadillac's STS; GM's Cobat, Solstice, GTO, Aveo, the redesigned Malibu, and G6; Chrysler's 300C, Magnum; Ford's Montego, Freestyle, GT and the new Mustang. Some of the cars are hot -- but there isn't optimism that the decline will stop. It's predicted that the US car makers will lose an 3% in car share in 2004. What will stop the decline? A combination of exciting, quality vehicles, with good prices. The US auto makers have trained North American car buyers to expect deep discounts, and that will be a hard mindset to change. The foreign car makers screwing up may not hurt either. But the chances of that happening? (For some hot cars from the show, check out MSN's coverage!)
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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