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...What They're Weaponizing in India: The newest addition to India's antiterrorism arsenal is tastier than most. After successful trials in defense labs, the military is converting bhut jolokia--the world's hottest chili--into hand grenades. Intended to render suspects harmless in much the same way tear gas does, the nontoxic bombs have an added bonus, according to R.B. Srivastava, a scientist at the Defence Research and Development Organisation: the grenades' "pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts...
Bachmann may think the Census is too intrusive; I just wish it were more so. As long as we're spending all this money to reach so many people, imagine what we could find out. Which do you favor, Leno or Letterman? Smooth or chunky? Faith or works? Liberty or equality? As it is, we had little to argue over in my house. This year's is one of the shortest forms in history, and it is aggressively uninteresting; our dry cleaners demand more information before they'll do home delivery. The trickiest part for us was to name what...
...climate change, and the result is anything but heroic. In making Solar a comedy - albeit one as black as the dark side of the moon - McEwan gives the lie to vain hopes that the planet will be saved by a sudden outbreak of environmental virtue. If we're going to avoid choking on what McEwan calls the "hot breath of civilization," we're going to have to harness human nature, in all its selfishness, mendacity - and occasional genius...
...other words, we're going to need Michael Beard, a rotund, balding, 50-ish English physicist coasting on a Nobel Prize he won two decades ago. As Solar begins, Beard is in the waning days of his fifth marriage, hanging on as the chief of a government center on renewable energy, where climate change takes up less space in his mind than adultery. "Beard was not wholly skeptical about climate change," McEwan writes. "But he himself had other things to think about." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
While they wait for the U.S. electric-auto market to develop, some new suppliers are looking toward consumer electronic goods and markets outside the U.S. to keep their plants busy and improve quality until the big orders come in. "We're in the early stages of what will be a significant run-up," says A123's Vieau. "There's a lot of business out there." Sastry echoes that view, saying many automakers rely on engine suppliers. "If the dream I and others have is realized, we'll see batteries being treated like engines," she says. Job engines, no less...