«Je suis un super héros en chair et en os», lâche Menganno. «Mon but, c'est que nous soyons tous bons et solidaires: c'est ma raison d'être», poursuit-il, déguisé en justicier des temps modernes et entouré d'enfants au coin d'une place de Lanus (province de Buenos Aires). Il porte un masque bleu en latex et refuse de révéler sa vraie identité. Son nom veut d'ailleurs dire en espagnol: «M. Untel» ou «M. Quelqu'un». Mais on sait qu'il est marié, a deux enfants de 11 et 18 ans et des amis qui sont dans la confidence.

There are about 250 million U.S. internet users, according to something I read on the internet, and about a quarter of them use discussion boards, according to something I read on some discussion board.

TAMPA, Florida — Ross Lindman gently pats the black hull of his intimidating 25-foot aquatic robot. Then he gestures to the bomblets strapped to either side of it. “This,” says the Columbia Group vice president, “is an underwater Predator.”

The Indianapolis 500 is more than an automobile race. It is an institution, a cultural touchstone so steeped in history that it's rightly been dubbed the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

Hyperbole? Perhaps. But the Indy 500 is the one race that everyone has heard of, if not actually watched. The Speedway doesn't disclose attendance figures, but the grandstands can hold 257,000 people. Millions more watch the event on TV.

Like multicore computer chips, Android smartphones, and Starbucks coffee, LCD TVs are getting cheaper—and bigger—all the time. Inevitably, your brother-in-law’s new 55-inch TV cost less than the 48-inch model you bought two years ago. Why? Science! See, flat-panel displays are made by machines that print arrays of circuits on sheets of glass and then slice those sheets into screens like high tech brownies. And since 1999, those machines have increased in size by 800 percent. Thus, the Law of Big Glass: The larger the glass printer, the cheaper—or bigger—the TV.