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...problem is that while everybody likes the idea of a clean Earth, Americans aren't much for self-sacrifice. We drive SUVs and eschew public transportation, but can't bear high prices at the pump - and the "gas consumption tax" is political poison, deadlier than any arsenic. We own multiple TVs, surf the Internet, and run the air-conditioning while we're at work so the house is cool when we get home, but even in California, the most environmentally progressive state we've got, the mere mention of higher electricity bills as a demand-reducing measure sends shivers down...
Kamen, winner of the 2000 National Technology Medal and creator of a wearable insulin pump and a wheelchair that climbs stairs, has formed a company called ACROS that will craft "motorized, self-propelled, wheeled personal mobility aids, namely wheelchairs, scooters, carts, and chariots," Inside Magazine reported...
...communication which we print this morning shows the feeling that exists in the University towards such outages as the blowing up of the Yard pump. If the disapproval of the undergraduate body could be given as wide publicity as the act which aroused it, much of the harm done to the best interests of the University would be remedied. But in actual experience this has rarely been possible. The act of one thoughtless individual invariably creates a prejudice against the whole University of which he is a member, and, in the case of those newspaper readers who are unfamiliar with...
...doesn't work. He doesn't do anything but smoke. (Bing just shrugs when I ask if it's true that he hasn't left in a year. "I'm too skinny to leave," he explains, "everyone will know I'm doing yaba.") Big has a job as a pump jockey at a Star gas station. And he has a girlfriend, and he has his motorcycle, a Honda GSR 125, and this weekend, like most weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight...
FILL 'ER UP Do you feel unusually short of breath during exercise? It's a classic symptom of congestive heart failure, but you may have a form of the disease doctors barely understand. For years, heart failure was thought to have been caused by the heart's inability to pump blood efficiently. Now a study shows that half of all patients may have a different defect altogether: their hearts don't properly fill up with blood. Doctors still don't know how best to treat the problem, but they do know who is most likely to develop it: hypertensive women...