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...better answer is sugarcane ethanol, which yields eight times the energy it takes to make and provides 40% of all the fuel sold in Brazil. But such ethanol causes environmental problems of its own, as forests are cleared for cane fields. Better still would be to process ethanol from agricultural waste like wood chips or the humble summer grass called switchgrass. The cellulosic ethanol they produce packs more energy than corn ethanol, but it also takes more energy to manufacture. "If you make ethanol by burning coal, you defeat the purpose," says Sarah Hessenflow Harper, an analyst for the advocacy...
...supply. "She was looking paler and paler when I saw her," he says. "I thought she was getting sick, but it was that she could not pay these electricity bills. I moved her out. But when I went back to dismantle her house the landowners were standing there with cane knives. They said the structure did not belong to them, but I had to come across their land to get it back. I could have taken them on in court to get the house back. But the moment we won the case would be the moment they would burn...
...military, he says, don't want to do police work, although he points to their results. "Under Qarase's government, every day of the week people were jumping on counters with cane knives to steal," he says. "There hasn't been a major crime since Dec 5. None." And when lawlessness has decreased to his satisfaction, his men will be withdrawn: "We want to give that power back to the police, but at the moment people don't have confidence in them." He notes a fall in police morale since the departure of Commissioner Andrew Hughes. "He ran away," says...
...instructed kids on how to catch bad guys). What's striking today about the strip is its sanctified sadomasochism. No question, Tracy could dish it out, as in this sequence from 1947: "Like a whip, a piece of chain flies through the air - a chain attached to Tracy's cane handle. AGAIN AND AGAIN, the chain slashes! Tiny pieces of glass fly through the air." More often, though, Tracy was on the receiving end of the mayhem...
...stations, detention centers and prisons, but few were prepared for such evidence to begin arriving in the form of a graphic cell-phone video. Even more shocking was the fact that the graphic recording of a man writhing in agony, begging for mercy as he is sodomized with a cane and verbally abused by men identified in an official investigation as police officers, is believed to have been disseminated by those same officers in a bid to humiliate the victim and intimidate his colleagues. On the recording, one of two officers due to stand trial in March over the incident...