Lacking the competitive instincts considered necessary to get ahead in his sales job, Jason Steadman meets a recently hired Iraqi war veteran who recruits him for the company softball team and offers him a job in corporate security.

Those electronic tools that are now so ubiquitous--our laptop, iPod, and cell phone--are all powered by lithium batteries; and science reporter Seth Fletcher describes how the third element of the periodic table may also hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a "smart" power grid that can store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and wind and use them when we need them, lithium--metal...

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