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Each one of Cadillac’s lineup of CTS-V flagships are the automotive equivalent of a 9-pound hammer, vehicles of such brutal power and felonious fuel economy they make gearheads cheer, environmentalists scream and small children cry.

Every one of them is big and mean, with an engine two sizes too large...

SONOMA COUNTY, California -- Twice a year, NASCAR drivers do the unthinkable: They turn right.

The old saw has it that NASCAR drivers spend their afternoons turning left. There's a grain of truth to that, because 34 of the 36 races on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series calendar this year are on oval tracks. But the joke discounts the skills, if not the guts, needed to lap a monster like Daytona International Speedway at something north of 185 mph.

Those skills get a real workout when the Cup Series hits its two road courses, Infineon Raceway here in Northern California and Watkins Glen International...

Boo! Army Laser Cannon Won't Be Ready Until 2017

Late last month, officials from the Army and from Boeing presented to the press what appeared to be a working version of a mobile laser cannon. Parked in front of an American flag was an eight-wheel, 19-ton heavy truck. Affixed to the top of that truck was a laser beam controller, used to aim and fire lethal rays of coherent light.

There was only one thing missing from this $38 million High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator: the laser itself.

The actual ray gun is being built under an entirely separate Army program — one that won’t be complete for another five years. Integrating the truck and...

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