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With high gas prices and impending fuel shortages, how will cars of the future be different from the ones we have now?

We won’t have hydrogen propelled cars any time soon. Although they were first through of in the 1840s, and they emit harmless water vapor, extracting hydrogen from water uses up lots of gas. Hydrogen in the form of gas escapes easily and cannot be contained within engines. It’s also highly explosive. Auto industry expert Garel Rhys says, “General Motors has spent a billion pounds on fuel cell technology but the cost needs to be reduced by 80% if they are to rival petrol engines.”
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A fierce fight has been going on for years between the parents of autistic kids and the government and pharmaceutical industry about whether or not the mercury used as a preservative in vaccines causes autism. Over the past 20 years, there has been a huge increase in the number of autistic children, which has led to a lawsuit that parents have lost. However, all that may change, now that a new study shows that exposure to low doses of thimerosal, a mercury preservative used in childhood vaccines, can lead to the development of autism in mice.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists accuses the Bush administration of practicing junk science. Bush science advisor John Marburger complains that the UCS’s February report reads like a “conspiracy theory report.”

Bruce Sterling writes in wired.com that, “The Bush administration has no respect for science. Ideologues prefer to make up the laws of nature as they go?As the report amply documents, the Bush administration has systematically manipulated scientific inquiry into climate change, forest management, lead and mercury contamination, and a host of other issues.”
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The artist Michelangelo may have had a form of autism called Asperger’s Syndrome, and Albert Einstein, Socrates and Jane Austen may have had it too. Psychiatrists describe Michelangelo as “strange, without affect, and isolated” and “preoccupied with his own private reality.” Other potential Asperger’s cases are Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, the poet W.B. Yeats and pop artist Andy Warhol. Even Microsoft’s Bill Gates has been mentioned as possibly having it.
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