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...form. Like a self-help talk show, Truth brings in family members to air dirty laundry, aiming for confrontation and catharsis. For every awful disclosure (a woman admits to having cheated on her husband), there's a sentimental moment (a father offers to become a bigger part of a grown child's life...
...both chilling and truthful, it's damaging to demonize the global effort to develop clean fuels as "myth," "scam" and "hype" [April 7]. It is no myth that thousands of scientists and their teams are working feverishly to create biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel and biobutanol from nonfood plants grown on land unsuitable for food production. We could not have landed on the moon without first launching at Kitty Hawk. We're getting better at this every day. Mark Beyer, DETROIT...
...problem: Starbucks is staking its future on making a cup of coffee for people who don't like Starbucks - a McDLT in a cup. And maybe it has to. Maybe, because of its own success, Starbucks has changed America into two consumeriats, one dedicated to their artisanal, fussy, shade-grown, Fair Trade microvarietals of Cafe Froufrou, and one that just wants a more competently made cup of not-too-dark, coffee-flavored coffee with their bagels and bear claws...
...that's the case, I guess I can't blame Starbucks, big as it's grown, for wanting to land on the bigger side of that divide. Nor can I come up with a better suggestion for them if they want to improve their standing in the market. But ask me in a hour, after I've had my third pot of coffee...
...begin operation until this summer, but when Higgs, 78, made his first visit there on April 5, it was, in the nomenclature of particle physics, "an event." Grown men and women with Ph.D.s swarmed Higgs for autographs, but he appeared far more taken by the experimental equipment he hoped would find the Higgs boson and thus prove his theory. A particle detector called ATLAS, for instance, is 150 ft (46 m) long, 82 ft (25 m) high, weighs 7,000 tons and is connected to enough cable and wiring to wrap around the earth nearly seven times. "The sheer scale...