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SATURDAY,  JULY 25,  2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The rising price of fuel will slash school busing, nearly empty the skies of airplanes, and turn many resorts into ghost towns. But Americans will become fitter, breathe cleaner air, and eat healthier food.  That's the future Christopher Steiner paints in "$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better" (Grand Central Publishing, $24.99).

Spare us.  The one plane you'll see in the air will be Al Gore's private jet.

FRIDAY,  JULY 24,  2009

OSAKA, Japan, July 23 (UPI) -- A realistic "female" humanoid robot developed by a Japanese national institute made its public debut modeling wedding gowns on an Osaka catwalk.

I preferred it when the Japanese were making the Walkman.

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