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"  Sad news from NASA today: Astronaut Wally Schirra, one of the magnificent Mercury Seven and the third American to orbit Earth, has died at age 84. If it&amp;#039;s any consolation\u2014though it probably isn&amp;#039;t\u2014the space agency has turned out some terrific new views of Jupiter (above right), and researchers might have found even more evidence of water on Mars. Last year, Popular Mechanics&amp;#039; Simon Cooper discovered how troubling it was that undercover investigations into Chinese spying were turning up evidence that China has built up its military with secret U.S. technology. But how&amp;#039;s this for scary: Now that more of those investigations are headed to court, FBI officials are wary\u2014&amp;quot;even mortified&amp;quot;\u2014that the trials may backfire. At least we may be one step closer to avoiding a digital ice age of lost data formats: Microsoft and the British Library have teamed up to archive a million e-mails for future generations, lest we somehow lose them all. Something to that effect might have prevented the revolt over at social news aggregator Digg.com, where users cried censorship over removed hacking codes for HD-DVD before the site&amp;#039;s officials relented and took a gamble on DRM. Speaking of gambles, a Canadian auto junkyard took one with over 700 stolen cars\u2014and lost, based on our knowledge of how you can handle scrap right\u2014while it&amp;#039;s finally becoming clear just who&amp;#039;s taking one (Arnold, Clooney, the usual) with the Tesla Roadster\u2014and definitely winning, if our test drive was any indication. An electric sports car isn&amp;#039;t green enough\u2014or cheap enough\u2014for you? How about Apple getting greener by getting smart with LCD display? Or Foster&amp;#039;s joining the ranks of green beer by using smart bacteria to produce clean energy from brewery spill-off? Or, better still, quantum dot technology getting even smarter than it already is, so you can buy cheaper solar panels and afford to live green after all. Better yet: Run it all from new solar thermal power plants and stop worrying about the nuclear option. \u2014Matt Sullivan "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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