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“A Philadelphia police officer died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday after a scuffle with protesters outside BIO 2005, the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s annual trade show and convention being held this year in

Saab’s BioPower engine gives ethanol a kick in the pants Popular Science: “With all the buzz about hybrids, it’s easy to ignore our homegrown alternative fuel: ethanol. Clean-burning and infinitely renewable—we’re talking grain alcohol—ethanol is dear to environmentalists and economists alike. The standard 85/15-percent ethanol/gasoline blend (E85) is widely used in Sweden, but there are

Vinyl Fantasy “Five lasers read the grooves of the record, which the player translates into sound. The lasers don’t physically touch the record, so they won’t wear it down. $15,000” audioturntable.com

It’s hard to believe these aren’t special effects… they’re real! Indredible images. Have you ever seen anything like this before? Or this? And what on earth is this? This looks just like something else…

You have to type all of this just to print “Hello world” to screen: ***************************** IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. HELLO. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. DATA DIVISION. PROCEDURE DIVISION. MAIN SECTION. DISPLAY “Hello World!” STOP RUN. **************************** Still, it’s not as long-winded as Assembler-Z80-Console…