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...that global public investment in energy research and development was just $9 billion in 2005 - about a billion less than the U.S. is currently spending in Iraq per month. That has to be doubled, at least. "We need money on the magnitude of what the U.S. invested in the Apollo program," said Steven Chu, another co-chair and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California-Berkeley. "I'm confident that will lead to a lot of breakthroughs on energy technology...
...after something exotic and unusual from old colonial Singapore, pop over to CK Collections in Little India for amazing period fans and lights. Call first, tel: (65) 9382 3438, or CK might be out fixing or delivering something. I recommend an early dinner of fish-head curry at Apollo Banana Leaf restaurant on Race Course Road, tel: (65) 6293 8682, followed by a long browse at Mustafa, a 24-hour shopping center, tel: (65) 6295 5855. They've got everything from food to electronics, and the saris and gold jewelry are cheap. People from India actually fly to Mustafa...
...artist so taken by the sun, Turner was no Apollo. He was short, squat and beak-nosed. The offspring of a London barber, he spoke all his life with a Cockney accent. Even after he started to make good money, which happened soon, his fingernails were caked with pigment, and he kept one of them long, like a blues guitarist does, so that he could use it to scratch directly into the paint. Like Billy Joel or Elton John, he was a commoner who made good...
...politics of limits." Mandatory emission cuts alone won't be enough to drive the kind of innovation needed to break the world of its fossil-fuel habit--and China and India will never sign on to caps that could limit economic growth. Instead, Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue for Apollo-program-style government investment in clean-energy research, on the order of $30 billion a year. It's a smart, if not wholly original idea--not least because it would allow greens to frame climate change as an inspiring challenge, not just a pending catastrophe. And that's a contrarian position...
...aircraft that flies like an airplane but takes off and lands like a chopper is about to make its combat debut in Iraq. It has been a long, strange trip: the V-22 has been 25 years in development, more than twice as long as the Apollo program that put men on the moon. V-22 crashes have claimed the lives of 30 men - 10 times the lunar program's toll - all before the plane has seen combat. The Pentagon has put $20 billion into the Osprey and expects to spend an additional $35 billion before the program is finished...