Tip - Uncle Sam's Not-So-Bright Solution

"IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE," MIRIAM RAFAILOVICH, PH.D., is saying, perhaps sensing my distress after she'd peppered me with rapid-fire tech talk at her lab at Long Island's Stony Brook University. "Here, look. You can see it."She holds up one of those spirally CFLs—compact fluorescent lights, the bulbs that have been crowding out incandescents on store shelves. "There," says the materials engineering researcher. "And there. And, oh my, look at that. Wow."
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