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In her new diary, Anne Strieber tells what it was like to attend the movie premiere of The Day After Tomorrow. Only Hollywood could have made it snow on the Museum of Natural History in May. She writes, “[The film] has taken a long journey, all the way from a hotel room in Toronto to movie theaters all over the world. It’s amazing, when you think about it.”

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How about never having to iron another shirt again? A German company has invented a heated, inflatable dummy that “irons” shirts for you. “This will be a complement to the lawn mowing and vacuum cleaning robots that already exist,” says economist Jan Karlsson. Since most of us are still doing those chores ourselves, we don’t expect to have our shirts ironed automatically anytime soon.

Celeste Biever writes in New Scientist that the Dressman was invented after an international survey showed that ironing?especially ironing shirts?is the chore that most people dislike the most. “Ironing is so boring,” says Karlsson. “I really think people will use this.”
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Hybrid cars, that use both a gasoline engine and an electric motor, could put rescue workers at risk of serious electrical shocks as they try to rescue people from crashed cars. “If you’re walking up to a [hybrid] car that’s laid up on its side, the last thing we’re looking forward to is getting electrocuted,” says volunteer fireman Herbert Scott. “Without a doubt there will be a day where that will happen.”
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While most oil experts think we’re running out fast, a small group thinks that oil is a renewable substance, produced under high heat and pressure deep within the Earth’s crust. That means we would never run out of oil, since it’s always being created. However, if we keep burning it forever, it will be the end of us, since it produces greenhouse gases that accelerate global warming.
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