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America's no. 1 automaker has gone for an overhaul of its fleet, unleashing 29 new or updated models. The company hopes to entice young buyers with zippy entries like the Chevy Cobalt. Replacing the aging but best-selling Cavalier, the compact Cobalt offers extras--heated leather seats, an MP3 player and a power sunroof--that should help it compete with the more upscale Honda Civic and Volkswagen Jetta. But the upgrades aren't just aesthetic: relatively large 15-in. tires come with the coupe and the sedan, and a peppier, 170-h.p. engine will be standard on the coupe...
...motes will have a transforming effect on how we monitor the world. "It's going to be a hugely revolutionary technology," he says. Already, he has performed an experiment for the U.S. Army in which a mere eight motes were dropped from a plane and used to detect a fleet of vehicles on the ground. Homeland Security will start using smart dust this summer in a pilot project to protect ports in Florida. And Honeywell has started using motes in supermarkets to make giant refrigerators more energy efficient. Says Pister: "There's a potential to do for the physical world...
Children who want to actively commune with their books are better off with the endearing Tails, written by Matthew van Fleet and designed to be indestructible. Its pull tabs are thick, and its sturdy pages--filled with textured examples of such animal tails as a colorful peacock's--are meant to be touched...
...proposal that continues to divide social and religious communities as well as political parties. - By Bruce Crumley Phantom Victory U.K. Environmental group Friends of the Earth won its campaign to stop a British company from breaking up a fleet of toxic U.S. Navy "ghost ships" after a high court judge ruled that the license awarded to dismantler Able UK was invalid. The fate of four ships already in the U.K. was unclear. Blow to ETA FRANCE Police arrested four suspected members of the Spanish Basque separatist group ETA, including its alleged military leader and chief of logistics, in the southwestern...
...delighted. It comes into service on Dec. 1, making its maiden voyage from Dubai to Sydney under the Emirates airline livery. The flight time will be 14 hours, but this tireless behemoth can handle journeys of 17 hours or more, and Emirates has additional plans to deploy its fleet of eight A340-500s on trips to North America and New Zealand...