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TOYOTA, Aichi -- At a center for teaching Toyota production methods, workers from around the world learn bolt-tightening by moving dance-like to a metronome and practice paint jobs by studying videos of their performance. "It comes from experience. The body knows how to learn," says Kazuo Hyodo, a 30-year veteran on the assembly line as he demonstrates how to stand, finger the bolts and listen to the buzz of the drill for proper bolt-tightening Toyota style. "Hear that? That sounds metallic, and you're screwing it in too tight." At a time when Toyota Motor Corp. appears on track to overtake...

<p>Democrats in the state Senate floated a budget proposal on Tuesday. Republicans sank it. Democrats will blame Republicans' anti-tax torpedos, but this budget wasn't seaworthy. It didn't cut nearly enough expenses to get state spending in line with a realistic projection of future revenues.</p>

Exercise pill a possibility It may be one day be possible to pop a pill to build up muscle tone without the need to take exercise. Scientists say they have discovered how to stimulate muscles in the way that exercise does. An inability to exercise complicates many chronic medical conditions and makes those conditions worse Dr Sanders Williams The breakthrough may offer a way to help bedridden or disabled people get some of the benefits of exercise. However, the researchers are adamant that they are not setting out to create an exercise pill for couch potatoes. The crucial chemical is...