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• 4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Applied Materials
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 115,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) has earned a respected four-star ranking. While five ...
• EarthTalk: Painkillers and electric bikes
Gaiam, a leading purveyor of green household and lifestyle items, reports that the average American household contains between three and 25 gallons of toxic materials, mostly in the form of household cleaners filled with petrochemical solvents ...
• Nuclear renewal spurs demand for engineers
The nation's enthusiasm for nuclear energy turned to antipathy in 1979 after an accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania released radioactive materials. It was the most serious commercial nuclear plant accident in ...
• Navy blames crew, command for carrier fire
SAN DIEGO - A fire aboard the nuclear-powered USS George Washington aircraft carrier resulted from a failure to properly store hazardous materials and other missteps that allowed the fire to burn unchecked for more than eight hours, Navy ...
• Power cell wins $1 million Pentagon prize
The second prize of $500,000 went to Adaptive Materials Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich. The third prize of $250,000 went to the Jenny 600S fuel cell system, produced by SFC in partnership with Capitol Connections of Middleburg, Va. All three systems were ...