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...highest-ranking generals, Lt. Gen. Gene Renuart, popped up to the cockpit, they spent a more than an hour shooting the breeze with him. Then the pilots armed the countermeasures to defend the aircraft in case it was attacked, the interior lights were dimmed, and only the green glow of military lights shined on the Silver Bullet...
...call the Motor City's flagship exhibition the Detroit eco-tech show. While big SUVs and pickups dominated a few years ago, this time around it is more a showcase for environmentally friendly technologies. Not to be outdone by GM, Ford revealed a funky concept vehicle called Airstream, featuring glow-in-the-dark windows, a lava lamp and an electric powertrain combined with a hydrogen fuel cell. BMW touted its hydrogen technology with a 7-series concept vehicle and promoted its "clean diesel" technology, which it plans to deploy in a model bound for the U.S. in 2008. Just about...
...only that, but according to the MIT Technology Review, researchers are developing ways to make the little rascals friendlier - injecting bits of DNA into bacteria to make them "glow, detect light," or even smell sweet. "Minty-fresh foot fungus" is projected as a real possibility. Of course, so was democracy in Iraq, but why drag that...
Goodbye Delta Center. Hello, Energy Solutions Arena. The NBA's Utah Jazz has sold naming rights to its Salt Lake City home to Energy Solutions, a leader in nuclear-waste disposal, for unspecified millions. The move has spurred fans to suggest nicknames like the Glow Dome and the Melta Center, proof that the lucrative name game can be unpredictable. Ballparks don't always get a pretty moniker--and companies don't always get what they paid...
...secure enough? For the first decade after the ADX was built, the citizens of Florence weren't worried much about the secretive compound, which is only conspicuous when the sun goes down and its banks of light towers glow against the dark horizon. But when Moussaoui, the crazed 9/11 wannabe hijacker, arrived to considerable media fanfare in May 2006, some locals started to feel as if they were living beside a tempting terrorist target. People weren't so much concerned that someone would break out of the fortified ADX, but rather they wondered what would prevent an al-Qaeda squad...