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Article — From the November 2008 issue
Article — From the November 2008 issue
Article — From the June 2006 issue
The end of cheap oil and the rise of the House of Ch??ˇvez
Article — From the August 2004 issue
The oil industry may yet dodge the cleanup of MTBE
Article — From the May 2004 issue
From coast to coast, federally funded scientists race to capture CO<2>
Article — From the June 1979 issue
Washington designed, built, and ran an energy crisis
The easy chair — From the May 1978 issue
Exploiting the belief in perfidious Araby
Article — From the August 1977 issue
Article — From the August 1977 issue

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.