The deeper shame of American cities (Fortune, 1968)

We were taught to despise our cities until they became despicable—for white as well as black. It will take all the nation's talents to repair the damage.

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a story from our magazine archives. As the country prepares to celebrate Martin Luther King Day and inaugurate its first African-American president for a second term, we turn to this piece from November of 1968. In the wake of the bitterly MORE

An entrepreneur's long, strange trip

In Bend, Not Break, Geomagic founder Ping Fu describes her remarkable journey from victim of China's Cultural Revolution to success in the U.S. tech industry

By Jessi Hempel, senior writer

FORTUNE -- By all accounts, Ping Fu should not have survived. At eight, as a young victim of China's cultural revolution, she was wrenched from her home and sent to live in a dormitory as mother to her four-year-old sister. At MORE

A sneak peek at Toyota's wonder car

No one who looks at the global success of the Prius should fail to consider Toyota's first iterations.

By Doron Levin, contributor

FORTUNE -- The Lexus 600h with cameras, radars and sensors strapped over its exterior looks more like a research project than a car. The research vehicle featured at last week's CES is one small facet of Toyota Motor Corp.'s push to create advanced gadgetry aimed at avoiding collisions and minimizing MORE

Does the world really need a new Corvette?

If you're not a baby boomer, you might wonder why GM even bothered.

By Doron Levin, contributor

FORTUNE -- Lots of Americans under the age of 50 may be scratching their heads, wondering why General Motors Co. has bothered to create the seventh generation of its iconic Corvette sports car.

In 2012 GM's (GM) Chevrolet division sold exactly 14,132 Corvettes. That equates to about 1.7% of all the Chevrolet cars sold in the MORE