In this issue: Windows 7, a dire outlook for the economy,
and reviving the public option.
---Cars---
Nissan's CEO predicts that EVs will make up 10 percent of
new-car sales by 2020. To meet this anticipated demand,
Nissan partnered with NEC to engineer the lithium-ion
battery pack, according to Popular Mechanics.
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---Computers---
Windows 7 has officially hit the market, and Popular
Mechanics says it is a welcome relief from Vista.
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---Ebooks---
Popular Mechanics looks at Barnes & Noble's Nook ebook
reader. It's got a small color navigation screen, the
ability to easily load your own photos, and it just begs to
be touched.
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---Economy---
In a speech to the Value Investing Congress, David Einhorn
painted a dim view of our financial system and the
government's role of enabler, according to Registered Rep.
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Is the stimulus spending working at all? Time Europe says
it probably has helped, a little. But it is also
stimulating a phony debate among Washington's partisans.
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---Health---
Buying cheap drugs over the internet is well known to be a
risky business. But Chemistry World says the sinister
menace of the 'falsified' active pharmaceutical ingredient
gets far less publicity.
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---Health Care---
Insurers and taxpayers are likely to pay big chunks of the
$900 billion bill to overhaul the nation's health-care
system. BusinessWeek says doctors will feel the least pain.
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Motley Fool reports that the government-run public option,
which seemed all but dead just a few weeks ago, much to the
joy of health insurers, is looking like it might make a
comeback.
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---Movies---
The animated movie Astro Boy reflects that retrofuturistic
worldview, where humans exist side-by-side with androids and
take hovercars to work. But Popular Mechanics says the
movie is not entirely faithful to the comic or the anime series.
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---Misc---
Behind the Balloon Boy fiasco was a family in hot pursuit of
the new American Dream. Time Europe points out that only in
the reality-TV era has unstable behavior become a valid
career choice.
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Popular Mechanics reports that one service member was
killed, and eight injured, when a Black Hawk helicopter
crashed into a naval vessel off the coast of Virginia.
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Popular Mechanics explains why helicopter missions in
Afghanistan are unusually dangerous.
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