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...look for lines that will entertain the audience,” Tarrant writes in an e-mail. “Caitlin’s Boston Red Sox theme was clever and timely, and we thought it would appeal to a wide audience. But she also has a very engaging personality—one of the judges said that she has ‘a smile in her voice...
...look for lines that will entertain the audience,” Tarrant writes in an e-mail. “Caitlin’s Boston Red Sox theme was clever and timely, and we thought it would appeal to a wide audience. But she also has a very engaging personality—one of the judges said that she has ‘a smile in her voice...
Gaffney and his cohorts have envisioned a clever solution: a hybrid car that combines gas-free plug-in technology with the boost of made-in-the-U.S., ethanol-based fuel to give it range. The plug-in hybrid could run for short distances on batteries charged by the same grid that powers our home appliances. On longer drives, it would use a fuel mix of 80% ethanol--alcohol, in the U.S. made mainly from corn--and 20% gas. Given that half the cars on the road travel fewer than 20 miles a day, such hybrids would travel mostly...
Friedman continues the informal mode of popular scholarship that earned him acclaim. Exclamation marks are everywhere, and Friedman coins several clever and useful monikers. “Developing Countries Anonymous,” for instance, expresses the need for underdeveloped countries to engage in self-reflection, openly avow their lack of development, and then consciously choose to fix it. He also intersperses personal accounts of minor technological enlightenment—realizing that he can print his boarding pass at home, for instance—that provide a welcome air of self-deprecation to countervail the author’s reverence...