Word: channelling
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...literally, a household name, she was just a popular cookbook author--"a nobody," says Paul Argenti, who worked on the project as a consultant to Kmart's CEO. Nevertheless, she stood up to Kmart's top executives, who wanted her to take an exclusive deal with the Lifetime cable channel to help promote the new line. "She's very passionate when she thinks she's right," says Argenti. "She said, 'I can do better than this.' They thought she was crazy." Stewart insisted and eventually landed a spot on NBC's Today show. "She fought tooth and nail for what...
...radiologists and scholars returned from Egypt earlier this year with what they claim are compelling clues that a stripped and mutilated mummy, first discovered in a side chamber of a royal Egyptian tomb more than 100 years ago, is the lost Nefertiti. The new expedition, funded by the Discovery Channel, will be chronicled in a TV special to be broadcast on Aug. 17. But much of the scientists' new evidence was shown to TIME last week. It is by no means conclusive--much of it is merely circumstantial. However, it may be as close as anyone has come...
...generator - and tested it on a small, experimental rig in the sea off Milford Haven. The amount of energy produced by Ayre's test rig so impressed the government that it has promised €2.23 million to fund the construction of the five-turbine unit in the Bristol Channel...
...test the new technology because it has the world's highest range between high and low tides, around 12 m, and during the Severn Bore, at the times of the spring and autumn equinoxes, tides of up to 15.4 m rush at 24 km/h up the funnel-shaped channel. But Ayre stresses that huge tidal flows are not essential to the system. "We will tailor the units to be site specific," he explains, "So that in areas with lower tidal flow we'd use larger blades and more of them than we'd need in areas with greater flow." Even...
...thus undermining U.S. efforts to do the same) and developing nuclear weapons. Sound familiar? It should; similar charges were used to justify the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and the fact that Rumsfeld is making them in the wake of a Bush administration decision to end high-level back-channel talks with Tehran and on the eve of a reported White House policy review on Iran is of some concern both in Europe and the Mideast...