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...life. Roy couldn't care a whit for such subtleties - yet to fault her for that is to miss the point of a polemic. She demands an emotive response to the horrible injustices that go largely unnoticed in a world distracted by images of cricket gods, Bollywood glamour and Nano cars. In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again...
...there. But some scientists bristled at Chu's demand for dramatic scientific breakthroughs - brand-new ways to store energy, sequester carbon or fuel cars - as opposed to incremental engineering improvements. "Chu likes flashy, sexy technological fixes that attract a lot of attention. He gets bored when they aren't nano-this or bio-that," says University of Texas engineering professor Tad Patzek, who left the Berkeley Lab after clashing with...
...branded the G-Wiz in Europe, costs about $12,200 there and about $7,000 in India. The pint-size commuter vehicles are powered by lead-acid batteries, which provide about 50 miles (80 km) of driving per charge. Top speed is about 50 m.p.h. (Read "From India: First Nano's $2,000 Car. Now the $7,800 Nano Home...
...Reva may have one factor going for it: "It has a first-mover advantage," says Hormazd Sorabjee, editor of Mumbai-based AutoCar magazine. He adds that the Reva could become "the Nano of electric cars," referring to the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, which sells for about $2,000. But that mantle may not have time to stick. India's Tata Motors, in partnership with the Norwegian electric-car research-and-development firm Miljoebil Grenland, plans to launch an all-electric version of the Nano in Norway early next year...
...term as interim dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences on July 1, he isn't finished with temporary positions just yet. The applied physics professor will serve as interim director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems, where his most visible responsibility will be the far-from-nano task of reducing the center's $6.1 million budget by as much as 20 percent while seeking to maintain the quality of its research opportunities. Colleagues praised Spaepen both for his administrative experience and his background as a material scientist. “I think he enjoyed being head...