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War on Pessimism Tuesday, March 25, 2003 By Neil Cavuto I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. No sooner had we encountered some tough fighting in Iraq, than our generals encountered tough questions at briefings. Is this another Vietnam? Did we get too cocky? Are we in too deep? And here's the one that killed me, were the French right? I don't know about you, but I don't remember one of our guys saying it would be a cakewalk taking out their guys. They didn't call it a "video game war." Journalists did. They didn't say Baghdad would be gone...

The Coming Hydrogen Economy Fuel cells powered by hydrogen are about to hit the market. In time, they'll let us kiss the sheikhs goodbye. FORTUNE Monday, November 12, 2001 By David Stipp As far back as Jules Verne, visionaries have predicted that society will someday be utterly transformed by energy based on hydrogen. The lightweight gas, the most abundant element in the universe, can be made from water. It is wondrously clean, emitting mainly pristine steam when burned. When fed into fuel cells, which generate electricity, it offers unprecedented efficiency--these electrochemical reactors extract twice as much useful energy from fuel ...