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...joke. In the U.S., where 70% of oil is used for transportation, any energy policy is necessarily also an automobile policy. The single key insight of Lovins' report is to focus on the need to reduce the weight of cars (without sacrificing safety) by using advanced materials like carbon fiber and composites instead of heavy steel. When powered by hybrid technologies that combine electricity with the internal-combustion engine, such light vehicles will produce enormous oil savings. Lovins proposes a nifty scheme of "feebates," which would reduce the consumer price of such energy-efficient cars while increasing the price...
DIED. FRED WHIPPLE, 97, inventor and rocket scientist whose "dirty snowball" theory made it easier to track comets; in Cambridge, Mass. Whipple correctly proposed that the core of a comet consists of ice, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide, and that its tail is formed by particles that break off from the mass as it approaches the sun. Over seven decades at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that the source of meteors is not far-flung stars but Earth's solar system. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known...
...scientist whose "dirty snowball" theory made it easier to track comets; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before Whipple explained the phenomenon in 1950, astronomers thought comets were loose collections of dust and vapor held together by gravity. Whipple argued that the core of a comet consists of ice, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide, and that its gossamer tail consists of particles that break off from the mass as it approaches the Sun. Over seven decades of work at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that meteors do not come from far-flung stars, but the Earth's solar...
...Baghdad, authorities wavered between efforts to keep him at arm's length and attempts to invite him into the political process. The Bush Administration regards him as a thug and refuses to engage with someone it sees as a carbon copy of Iran's ruling mullahs. Nor do Western officials in Baghdad trust his tactics. "We've been watching him take over the city of Najaf bit by bit by bit," says an official. "That experience has given us cause to question his credibility when he makes promises and to wonder whether he is prepared to play in a political...
...players, the iPod is the most stylish you can buy today, but chic competitors are just around the corner. The Rio Carbon, available in late August for $249, looks like a silver cigarette lighter with curved edges and has 5 GB of memory--1 GB more than the iPod mini for the same price. And Sony's Network Walkman, a 20-GB device with a squared-off design, goes on sale this month for $399. That's $100 more than a new 20-GB iPod, but the Sony is lighter and smaller. Sony claims that the battery lasts...