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...Medis has developed a fuel cell with cheap components that generates little heat and effortlessly eliminates waste water without resorting to energy-gobbling pumps. One of the attractions of fuel cells is that they can be big enough to run a factory or small enough to fit under the hood of a car. Medis' innovation is a type of micro--fuel cell, a power source that's small enough to slip into your pocket. The Medis Power Pack--a portable, wire-free mobile-phone recharger slated to be in shops by the end of next year--will allow users...
...third day of a trip that was supposed to last two days, the Somalis feel the vehicle slowing down, and then see smoke pouring from under the hood. The Sudanese smugglers stop and splash water onto the engine and the truck coughs back to life. The frightening ritual bath is repeated over the next few days. But when the truck rolls to a stop on the seventh day, something more serious is wrong. This time, the bath doesn't work. The drivers are nervous as they try to get the motor turning again. No luck. Getting stuck out here means...
Writing a column about how crazy Michael Jackson is would be about as gratuitous as claiming that Matt LeBlanc’s Friends spin-off, Joey, isn’t destined for Frasier-hood. Besides, a recent photo of his face would shame any written argument I might make. But the leap from Off the Wall to child molestation, with which he was recently charged for the second time in a decade, requires no minimal amount of justification. Thus far, we have little more evidence than one child’s claim against Jackson—two, if we include...
...bunch of hip-hop artists that you can relate to once you hit 30," he says. "I think, unfortunately, rap music is made to destroy itself. You have to be fresh and sell to an audience that's 16 to 25. They demand that you 'keep it hood,' 'keep it real.'" He says this sadly, but he can't deny responsibility. Today's records show: rap artists are doing...
...impressed by the twins and their aura, concluding that, “Unlike the Bush daughters or the Hilton sisters, who always look as if they were about to pop out of a bachelor-party cake, M-K and Ash, as they’re known in the hood, are modest, demure, able to walk without weaving.” The very fact that Vanity Fair interviewed the twins in the first place is telling of the indelible mark they have made on American culture...