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...Paul Stein, the MOD director of Science and Technology, told TIME at the launch of the British plan: "We and our allies need creative alternatives to fossil fuels. This document gives our partners in industry the confidence that we are serious about finding those solutions. The message is clear: we'll consider anything, as long as it works and gets us away from fossil fuels...
...says that GM (GM) and Chrysler will need more money than had been previously forecast. His comments are those of a man driving into the future while looking into the rearview mirror. Once U.S. light vehicle sales dropped over 30% the first two months of the year it was clear that the American auto companies would lose billions of dollars more than they forecast when they gave Congress their initial budgets late in 2008. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...other bees where food is. I've always wondered, How did we figure something like that out? Did a bunch of scientists sit around one day and suddenly go, "Oh, so that's what they're doing!"? Basically, we ran a bunch of experiments on bees and it was clear that they had some way of telling each other what was going on. They were definitely communicating something, but it wasn't clear what. So a number of trials were conducted where certain factors were controlled. One of the factors [that was] changed was the direction...
...claim that if you scratch the top part of a CD, where the label is, it's actually worse than if you scratch the bottom. Yes, it's surprising, isn't it? The laser looks through the clear bit, so we assume that's the delicate side. But actually, because of the way they're made - you start off with this lump of clear plastic and then you stick the foil on it, and then you stick a label on top of that - it's much thinner on the label side than it is on the other side...
...Healing a National Wound Senator Patrick Leahy's advocacy for a truth commission, charged with uncovering facts about alleged torture and civil-liberties abuses by the Bush Administration, is warranted [March 2]. Despite all that is right about our country, it is painfully clear that we tend to set aside the moral and ethical breaches in our history. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in South Africa in the aftermath of apartheid was designed to encourage a national catharsis of a shameful past. Most agree that the effort was worthwhile. Some would say there can be no forgiveness without...