So, automakers should imagine how to put themselves smack in the middle of all the value in the car market, rather than building cars on razor-thin margins while letting others reap most of the profits.
He and his team of 24 graduate students are the world's leaders in building "nanowires, " whiskers of semiconductors so thin you could bundle 20 million inside a strand of 2-lb.
To ensure the building looked like an old brownstone from the outside, Mr. Peterson took a thin layer of real brownstone and attached it to light aluminum honeycomb.
Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.