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...Each village went from never seeing electricity, never having a light bulb at night, to being fully electrified. They're small villages. But they were fully electrified for nearly half year each. And the only fuel - there's no infrastructure for that either - that went into each of these boxes was [methane gas from] cow dung. A pit next to the box and the most basic bio-digester you've ever seen... the pipe comes out of it and into our engine, and it made electricity. And since the power was made locally, we had no transmission lines...
...Box Battle...
After years of failed attempts to unionize big-box stores, labor seems to have hit on a winning legislative tactic in the battle over pay. Congress hasn't acted in nearly a decade, and although 140 local living-wage laws have been enacted in the U.S., most apply just to city workers or contractors. Union leaders say the Chicago rule means a long-overdue raise for the working poor. In real terms, wages for nonmanagerial retail workers have fallen 18% since 1975. But David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says the law could deter inner-city economic...
This clever search engine extracts images and videos from the news feeds of a variety of content providers, from YouTube to the BBC. Click on a source--say, the New York Times--from the "Browse Recently Added" box on the home page, and you will get a fresh batch of thumbnails, which serve as direct links to the news material. Or you can browse by category. Currently stocking some 10 million items in its searchable index, Pixsy intends to have 1 billion items by the end of the year...
...Americans will share after seeing “World Trade Center” is reunification in suffering and fear, a part of the 9/11 legacy that, while unforgotten, fails to speak to the nationalist upheaval in the years that followed and is all too easy to exploit at the box office...