"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Chevy Volt. The burning question in many people’s minds is this: How much electricity does that electric portion of the trip use? GM answers that question (sort of) in a new press release: “Applying EPA’s methodology, GM expects the Volt to…
GM, using EPA standards, predicts that the Chevy Volt will get 230 mpg— an astounding figure for a big-six vehicle. It’s commonly compared with Toyota Prius’s 48 mpg. But that’s only because several higher mileage cars, like the 70 mpg…
BBC headline trumpets, “Tamil refugees are allowed home.”  But read the article. In fact, only 4,000 of the hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees got to leave the camps this week. How many refugees are there? The number commonly cited…
Boston.com offers a stunning series of photos from the last days of the Sri Lankan conflict. Some of them are gruesome. Others are astoundingly beautiful.
Sharif Abdullah writes: I continue to monitor the lack of progress in Sri Lanka since the end of the war. Now, months after the crushing defeat of the Tamil Tigers as a military force, there are still hundreds of thousands of…
(Tamaki photo.) In my quest for more reliable figures for the greenhouse gas contribution of rice, I contacted several experts. I have received answers back from two of them. Dr. Reiner Wassman, scientist at the International Rice Research Institute, writes:…