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California, home to 26 million registered automobiles, backed away from passing legislation that would require 2% of all cars sold in the state to be electrically powered within two years. Instead, the state's Air Resources Board proposed giving car manufacturers more time to come up with a marketable "zero emission vehicle" (ZEV). Under the new schedule, 10% of all cars sold in California will be electrically powered...
...long way from being a practical vehicle for the long-distance drives in the California market. It's main purpose, McWhirter notes, is as a public relations vehicle. "Most of the anti-Detroit sentiment is focused in California, where they view American cars as polluting and inefficient. So this zero-emissions car will gain GM points...
...medical breakthrough, a genetically engineered clot-dissolving drug, TPA, has been found to help prevent the irreversible brain damage that afflicts many stroke victims. Patients who received the drug were at least 30% more likely than untreated patients to suffer zero or minimal disability after three months. On the downside: TPA carries a small risk of brain hemorrhage and must be administered within three hours of the stroke...
...ZERO CUSTOMIZED REFRIGERATORS The company that made industrial steel fridges a thing of beauty and status has deconstructed the icebox. Sub-Zero has developed technology that will allow kitchen mavens to refrigerate the most unlikely spaces: an overhead cabinet, a closet, a row of drawers. The box has vanished. This is the stuff that Martha Stewart's dreams are made...
...EINSTEIN STRIKES AGAIN Although it was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago, scientists have just now found a new form of matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate. By cooling a cloud of rubidium atoms almost to absolute zero (-459.67¡F), the physicists forced them to march in lock-step formation, just as Einstein said they would...