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In his new novel, Vineland, Thomas Pynchon, that disembodied know-it-all hiding out somewhere inside our nervous system, performs an eerie kind of magic realism on the McLuhanite world around us. His is an America, in 1984, in which reflexes, values, even feelings have been programmed by that All...
What is the best vantage point for spotting a drug-smuggling plane crossing the Caribbean? Strangely enough, one good place to be is Bangor, Me., a city thousands of kilometers north of the smugglers' favorite routes. Last week in Bangor the U.S. Air Force showed off the operations center for...
Even if Los Angeles' limited experiment is successful, the technology will not necessarily be widely used. "This is real futuristic stuff," says Sean McAlinden, a researcher with the University of Michigan's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation. "It's sort of a Star Wars fantasy." Even Southern California...
Still, the electric-roadway project is generating a lot of excitement in pollution-plagued Los Angeles. "I'm thrilled," says Jim Lents, executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which voted last spring to require that all cars in Southern California operate on electricity or other clean...
Electrifying even a few short stretches of roadway could increase the range and effectiveness of such voltswagens dramatically. Developers in Playa Vista hope to wire the subdivision's two-mile main artery and service the neighborhood with all-electric trucks and vans. Edison's Reeves dreams of extending the network...