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...strange bird took flight on April 29 from Fujikawa runway in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The world's first manned, disposable-battery-powered aircraft--running on 160 AAs--flew for 90 seconds in a test run to display the capability of Panasonic's new Oxyride Extreme Power batteries, released last year. Panasonic, best known for its consumer electronics, is planning to blast its way into the U.S. battery market with a new technology and a ton of aggressive brand campaigning. The company, a division of Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., craves no less than the top spot...
...good as it is for digital cameras, Oxyride can't hold a candle to Energizer's disposable e2 lithium battery, which delivered 3,107 digital shots to Oxyride's 990 according to the results of a comparative test in the June issue of POPULAR SCIENCE. But Panasonic is banking that most people will balk at paying $10 for a four-pack of lithium batteries when they can get a four-pack of Oxyrides...
TIME Do you see the success or failure of Bolivia's energy nationalization as a key test for the new Latin left...
...final examination given on Wednesday morning left some students crying foul, with a letter to the course’s professor calling the integrity of the test “severely compromised,” when it was learned that some students in the course had brought already-completed answers to several of the questions on the exam. These accusations prompted the course head, Professor of Physics Mikhail D. Lukin, to make the final exam count less towards the students’ final grades. The exam in Physics 153, “Electrodynamics,” allowed students...
...wrote yesterday. According to a student in the course, Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, a “rumor” circulated in the class that a small group of students were advised by a friend to complete the 2004 edition of the test. They were then able to take advantage of the fact that four questions from that version reappeared on Wednesday’s exam, which featured a total of six problems, of which students chose five to complete. In an e-mail sent to the entire class after receiving complaints about the allegations, Lukin announced...