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...energy and environment here and there add up, then Finland's Enfucell has a battery that will help people make a difference by cutting down on all the metal, lithium and alkaline that leaks from conventional cells. "Our battery doesn't have to go to the battery-recycle bin. It's disposable as household waste," says Jaako Happonen, 50, Enfucell's chief executive. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...When the bin is full, sensors trigger gears that then compact 180 gal. of waste into 40-lb., easy-to-collect bags. An LED display indicates when the trash is ready to be picked up. Poss has plans for that system to be replaced by a wireless one that will signal when the can is full...
...Byrne, facilities manager of Dudley House. “We believe some greasy towels that were just taken out of the dryer caught on fire due to spontaneous combustion,” Byrne said. Nine units from the Cambridge Fire Department responded immediately and confined the fire to the bin. The fire spread to the wall behind the bin, but the damage was not substantial, Byrne said. “It’s mostly smoke damage,” said Cambridge Fire Chief Gerald R. Reardon. The firefighters left just before 7 a.m., after which Harvard University Maintenance responded...
...throughout the region are of major concern to the Saudi government, a leading power in the Sunni Muslim world that presumably would like to see the U.S. take a more active stance in Lebanon against its regional rivals. Obaid says that when Vice President Cheney visits King Abdallah bin Abd Al Aziz Al Saud Saturday in Riyadh, the Saudi king is expected to tell Cheney that "the Saudi leadership will not and cannot allow Iran, through Syria and Hizballah, to bring down the Lebanese government and overtake the levers of power in Beirut." Obaid says the Saudi king is also...
Unfortunately, even killing or capturing bin Laden isn't likely to break the Taliban's and al-Qaeda's grip in the remote region. "The loss of a series of al-Qaeda leaders since 9/11 has been substantial, but it's also been mitigated by what is frankly a pretty deep bench of low-ranking personnel capable of stepping up to assume leadership positions," General Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, on November 15. "Though a number of these people are new to the senior management, they're not new to jihad...