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It’s long been thought that hydrogen cars won’t be a reality for many years, due to the problems with the volatile gas leaking into the atmosphere (and perhaps igniting and blowing up the car). The hydrogen atom may be free and available to all, but it’s also so small that it’s almost impossible to contain. But scientists are working on the problem.

Lee Dye writes in abcnews.com that hundreds of millions of dollars are being pumped into efforts to solve the problems with hydrogen fuel. One of these is that fossil fuel is much more efficient, so it takes a lot more hydrogen to run an automobile. This means the hydrogen needs to be compressed so enough of it can fit inside a gas tank.
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In a provocative editorial in the May 10 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Gerald F. Seib says that after the release of the photographs of U.S. troops torturing Iraqi prisoners, “?The U.S. has come face-to-face with the possibility that it isn’t changing the Middle East, but rather being changed by the Middle East?and not for the better?Had something happened along the way to the American soul?”
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As part of our new Communion Letters series, Evelyn writes: “I ‘heard’ [the alien] in my head, saying, ‘We did not come for you, this time. You were able to see us because of the attachments. You will not remember this.’ He repeated that. ‘You will not remember this.'” But she did!

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It’s one of our worst nightmares: being awake during surgery. But anesthesia doesn’t work for everybody. The people this has happened to say the pain isn’t the worst part, although that can be excruciating. It’s the horror of being paralyzed and unable to talk to the surgeon, while being completely aware of what he’s doing to you. Some patients describe it as like being buried alive.

It’s not all that rare: it happens in about one out of every thousand operations. Rachel Nowak writes in New Scientist that a simple device called a BIS monitor can cut the number of these cases by 80%–but most anesthetists don’t use it because they underestimate the possibility of a patient remaining awake.
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