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...foppish king, decked out in his powdered wig and walking stick; Handsome Dan is no less a vain show dog, chosen expressly for his ability to strut in front of a band and tear up a Crimson blanket. Both are the meaningless figureheads of their respective institutions, all bark and no bite; both inhabit silly expensive palaces—Versailles and Yale—pretty on the outside but pretty useless on the inside (where it counts). In fact, ironically enough, Handsome Dan XV’s first name was—drum roll—Louis...
...Spain, the agricultural town of Cuéllar, in the central province of Segovia, generates hot water and heating for 250 homes by burning pine bark and other wood residuals. The system, using no fossil fuel and similar to BedZED's wood-burning plant, also heats an indoor swimming pool, a cultural center and a school. Spain now produces 7% of the world's solar photovoltaic energy, and solar sources are "growing at a 50% clip per year," says Javier García Breva, director of the Institute for Energy Diversification and Savings, the government body responsible for promoting...
Yannatos, wearing a tuxedo instead of his usual orange shirt and brown vest, conducted furiously from the podium, his concentration visible and his movements powerful. During rehearsals, his usually soft voice was often replaced by a sharp, angry bark as he pushed his orchestra to perfection...
...grading each crew in one of only three categories: Superior, Outstanding and Excellent. Nevertheless, the competition remains furious. Before breakfast and after nightfall, in spare classrooms, around parking lots, on tiny patches of grass, the squads work tirelessly on their slinking and slithering and over-the-shoulder glances. "Smile!" bark the captains, and smiles light up every single young face...
...objected like "any member of the public." The board of the nominally independent BBC maintained that it had acted because the program was "unbalanced." Others charged that the government's action was censorship. "Unfortunately our board of governors, appointed to be the watchdogs of liberty, failed to bark," said Vincent Hanna of the National Union of Journalists...