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PM FEATURES /// OCTOBER 2008

VOLUME 185 NO. 10

90 How Do You Build the World's Biggest

Boat? e most massive cruise liners take shape in a

Finnish shipyard. PM gets a ﬁrst look. BY JEFF WISE

56 100 Skills Every Man Should Know Guys can’t survive on brains

alone—they need to know how to do real stuﬀ, like fell a tree, install a

graphics card and mix concrete. Here are the instructions. Plus: Twenty

essential tools—and how to use them right. BY THE EDITORS

98 So You Want to Buy an LCD TV LCD sets are

the top-selling TVs on the market. PM reveals what you

need to know before you go shopping. BY GLENN DERENE

10 0 Rediscovering Hydropower From the pipes

in water-treatment plants to long-forgotten river turbines,

overlooked sources of energy throughout the U.S. are now

poised to be tapped. BY MADELINE BODIN

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/// PM DEPARTMENTS

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NEW TOOLS

>

CARS

>

HOME

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HOW-TO

Tech Watch

11 Mars Water

Mileone e Phoenix

Mars mission makes hiory

by sampling the ﬁr water

found on another planet.

Plus: Prohetics for ani-

mals; your home’s hidden-

passageway potential.

24

DIY

44

Home

107 Chain Smokers

We put seven ripsnorting

chain saws to the te.

112 How Your House

Works: Interiors

A complete guide to the

pipes, wires, uds and

more beneath the surface.

116 Homeowners

Clinic Finding the right

backup generator.

Plus: Keep your home

safe from metal the.

Upgrade

21 Oﬀ-Road Warrior

Te riding the Zero X

Eleric Motorcycle, a

quick, fun, light and eco-

friendly dirt bike. Plus: PM

drop tes portable hard

drives; runs down the

batteries on mini LED

ﬂashlights; and ﬁnds the

wor luggage value of

the year.

11

Auto

121 Saturday

Mechanic Six ways to ay

safe in your garage.

130 Car Clinic Re-cap

your tire valve to avoid

inaccurate readings and

slow leaks.

Plus: Do diesel truck

engines really have to run

overnight in cold weather?

New Cars

35 World Beater

e 638-hp 205-mph ZR1 is

the be Corvette ever built.

Plus: Better headroom in

the Passat CC; the Porsche

911 with booed power;

and GM’s e cient new

Duramax V8 diesel.

28

Technology

141 Preparing for the

Digital TV Transition

PM tells you what you

need to know to survive

the conversion.

146 Digital Clinic Taking

high-quality pics with your

phone’s low-quality camera.

Plus: Getting more sound

from your MacBook’s

speakers; plugging a key-

board into the Nintendo

Wii; and ﬁxing Via’s

ﬁle-copying problems.

Columns

46 Engineered by

Nature Tough design

challenges can’t always

be solved in the lab—your

next showerhead might be

inspired by the rain fore.

54 Looking for a

Miracle A s the country

scrambles for energy alter-

natives, PM editor-in-chief

James B. Meigs weighs

the options.

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LISTED ON THE COVER: 98 HDTV Update /// 56 100 Skills Every Man

Should Know /// 63 20 Essential Tools /// 90 World’s Biggest Ship ///

100 New Power From Old Dams

Monthly

HOW TO REACH US 6

LETTERS

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THIS IS MY JOB

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OCTOBER 2008 | POPULARMECHANICS.COM

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