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While we’re all trying to figure out what is the best fuel to burn in our cars, some unexpected sources have turned up with some surprising ideas.

BBC News reports that in the UK, McDonald’s restaurants (which have been strongly criticized in Europe for encouraging the obesity epidemic there) has agreed is to convert all its delivery trucks there so that they run on biodiesel, which will be made from their USED COOKING OIL.

No used cooking oil around?why not run your car on fruit? Also in BBC News, Matt McGrath writes that researchers say that the sugar (fructose) in ordinary fruits can be converted into a fuel for cars that has LOW CARBON EMISSIONS.
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UPDATE – Hundreds of soldiers surrounding the Red Mosque in Islamabadand are preparing to storm the mosque after a standoff thathas lasted since the mosque was isolated by troops lastTuesday. Since then, at least 21 people have been killed inthe siege, which started when members of the radical mosquekidnapped seven Chinese whom they accused of running abrothel. There are believed to be 1,800 people in themosque, led by Abdul Rashid Ghazi. He has said that hisfollowers will commit suicide rather than allow themselvesto be captured, and expressed the hope that their deathswould spark an Islamic revolution in relatively secularPakistan. Keep reading for an update on this story.
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There would be no oil shortage if we could use our coal, since we have LOTS of it. But burning it releases greenhouse gases, and what we need most is a clean way to power cars.

Researchers Burt Davis and Rodney Andrews are exploring ways to increase the efficiency of converting coal to liquid fuel. Davis says, "North America is one of the world’s largest coal-reserve regions. Its petroleum is declining, but coal is still the largest resource. If the United States is to become independent from foreign sources of petroleum, it has to make it from oil shale, coal or both. We have about equal amounts of reserves of oil shale and coal, at the current rate of usage, to be able to generate petroleum substitutes for the United States for the next 200 years."
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UPDATE – Are women’s and men’s brains alike or different? Find out what you really know about the subject of sex by taking this sex quiz. UPDATE: To learn all about aphrodisiacs, keep reading.

The brains of men and women may start out different, but once they become a couple, they tend to think alike. And people with personalities that come on strong?either positively or negatively?tend to be more sexually promiscuous.
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