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...also light and safe, saving oil and lives without compromising comfort or pep. For example, a midsize SUV made of carbon fiber could cut fuel use by 72%, and the vehicle's extra cost could be repaid from fuel savings in about three years. Our proposals would expand car buyers' range and freedom of choice and increase automakers' profits and competitive strength. Amory B. Lovins, CEO Rocky Mountain Institute Old Snowmass, Colorado, U.S. Let the World Vote Simon Robinson's "a modest proposal: Global Suffrage" suggested that Americans should let the rest of the globe vote in the U.S. presidential...
ASHIL ANN, A SOPHOMORE at the University of California at Santa Barbara, went to college to stretch her mind--she didn't expect it also to expand her waistline. "At home my mom made choices on what I could eat," she explains, "but it was all-you-can-eat at the dining halls." Ashil got to school a year ago as a featherweight size 1. She now fits "snugly" into a size 3, she says. Say hello to the "freshman 15": the unwanted pounds many students pack on during their first year of college. The extra pounds--usually the result...
While scientists continue to design smarter drugs that can target only wayward tumor cells, few remedies are tailored specifically for children who, primarily for safety reasons, are left out of trials. But their options might expand if Genzyme and Ilex receive approval for Clofarabine, which could become the first medication in more than a decade green-lighted to treat pediatric leukemia exclusively. The drug meddles with a tumor cell's ability to replicate its DNA properly. In a small study of children who have not responded to existing treatments, 31% responded to Clofarabine...
...transition to movie downloads. Nothing is likely to be launched in the next year, but Hastings has been brainstorming the idea with Michael Ramsay, a Netflix board member and the CEO of TiVo, whose time-shifting digital video recorder has spooked Hollywood. Recently Ramsay, who has been struggling to expand the TiVo business, won FCC approval for TiVoToGo, a service that would allow people to share TV shows, movies and other TiVo recordings with as many as nine other TiVo boxes and computers via the Internet. (Not surprisingly, the MPAA bitterly opposed TiVoToGo.) "Downloading any movie ever made--that...
...Other environmental issues have failed to arouse the same clamor in this campaign. Both sides are promising to pursue water reform, with Latham announcing $A1 billion to revive the Murray river, and the Coalition touting a $A2 billion water fund to expand water recycling and efficient irrigation infrastructure. But to the concern of many scientists, crises like salinity and biodiversity loss have barely been mentioned. And despite Labor's promise to sign Australia up to the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse emissions and increase renewable energy use, climate change has also struggled to stir voters. "I think once they've done...