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...Search term data reveals that discussion topics on these sites can range anywhere from personal opinion and speculation on stock values to meaningless chest-thumping and flame wars. But the majority of search terms sending traffic to today's message boards are stock symbols. TRMP (Trump Entertainment), MCZ (Mad Catz video game accessories), NVAX (vaccine maker Novavax), NPLA (InPlay Technologies) were the most popular over the last four weeks...
...Reclaiming new life from old also requires advanced technologies: software systems that can detect metal tolerance, for example, and state-of-the art blasters that literally blow old paint, grease and oil from parts. Consider the flame spray machine Cat uses at Shrewsbury. Inside a tightly sealed booth, a nozzle attached to a robotic arm shoots out a constant spray of what look like white-hot sparks - picture a particularly robust Roman candle - onto a row of four cylinder heads. What it's actually spraying, however, is molten metal, adding a new 1-mm-thick layer of chrome or nickel...
...foiled car bombings in central London. A Jeep Cherokee slamming into the arrivals terminal at the Glasgow airport and bursting into flame. In two days, Britain has seen two cities darkened by terrorism. Glasgow police said last night that there were enough similarities between the Scottish attack and the London car bombs that the incidents had to be linked. If so, who might be behind them...
Science, technology and experience have drained a lot of risk from our lives. Death by fire, for instance, was a commonplace a century ago, when storms of flame sometimes consumed whole neighborhoods in a single night. Building codes, safe electricity and modern firefighting have saved countless lives. Today fire engines roll alongside ambulances to everyday medical emergencies, just to keep the crews sharp for the rare major blaze...
...presentation some 2,000 times yet still imbues it with a sense of discovery. He laid out the overwhelming evidence that human activity has given the earth a raging fever, then urged the people to respond-"If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate the baby's flame retardant! If the crib's on fire, you save the baby!" Yet he was optimistic. There's still time to act-two decades at most, according to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-and by rising to meet the challenge, this generation will achieve "the enhanced moral authority...