Not long ago, Andrew Fanara was shopping with his wife for a new big-screen television. Everything was going fine, until the sales clerk discovered Mr. Fanara was an energy watchdog for the federal government. Pulling Fanara aside, the clerk confessed: His own new 61-inch TV gulped electricity the way a big SUV guzzles gasoline.

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The Raptor is fast, cruising at speeds other fighters can attain only in short sprints. It’s also agile, heavily armed, and stealthy. In tests last year, the pilots of older F-15s that engaged the Raptors in simulated combat never saw the airplane that “hit” them.

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Susannah Patton: To find out who was working with whom and how scientists were getting new ideas, packaged-food giant Mars decided to map the group’s professional contacts using a process called social network analysis (SNA).

Check out this model, who is fannying about in a painstakingly crafted choco-frock during China’s first Chocolate Fashion Show, which took place in Beijing last week. Great photos.