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...Wired magazine and best-selling author of The Long Tail, Anderson capitalizes Free into a concept whose meaning sometimes crumples under his sweeping pronouncements. By his calculation, however, a flawed book remains a savvy bet--not least because the publicity will boost the author's brand on the lecture circuit...
McNair seemed like a model citizen, a married father of four who was active on the Nashville charity circuit. But when he was found lying dead in his apartment next to his mistress, Sahel Kazemi, that happy portrait was cracked forever. McNair was shot four times; Kazemi also died from a gunshot wound. Authorities confirmed that the deaths were a murder-suicide committed by Kazemi...
...before he blew himself up at the Marriott, asking where he was going with a backpack strapped to his chest while also pulling a wheeled suitcase behind him. The man apparently answered that he needed to deliver something to his boss, according to the Antara News Agency. Eerie closed-circuit video footage from the hotel of the moments before the detonation shows a man strolling through the lobby rolling a suitcase behind him. Seconds later, a burst of light obscures the camera's view and the room is engulfed in smoke...
...complicate matters more, an influx of 220-volt chargers on one block, even just two or three per a typical circuit (10 to 12 homes), could overwhelm the system, according to Craver. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Plug-in vehicles draw the equivalent of another house; the system can handle one per circuit, but two or three chargers on the same circuit could cause problems," he says. "Too much of a load could end up causing neighborhood outages...