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...help, Stagedhomes.com has contact information for professionals well versed in the art of making a home look appealing. If you're not eager to shell out a thousand or more dollars to bring in a pro, take advantage of a few specific tips offered at home staging hubs. First, clean up clutter and tone down loud wall-paint colors. Then put away personal photos and other chotchkes (so the buyer can more easily imagine him or herself living there), and set up some flowers so the place smells nice and feels summery. Even if you're in a rush...
...asked a panel of experts to do just that. But the Labor Party and most environmental groups insist the only right answer on nuclear is no. "No nuclear power in Australia. That's our position," said Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, who wants more effort put into solar, wind and clean-coal technologies. With the debate set to generate a lot more heat before it's over, here's a brief look at the issues that fuel...
...Opponents of nuclear power say no power source is as clean as wind, sun and tides, and that these should be the focus of energy planning. Nuclear advocates point out that reactors are compact and don't require damming rivers or defacing rural landscapes. For the same output, they say, a solar panel array or wind farm would need 200-500 times as much land as an average coal or nuclear plant. Also, because wind-farm and solar outputs fluctuate, they must be backed up by coal, hydro or nuclear power...
...billion. But they need very little fuel-uranium yields up to 1 million times as much energy as the same quantity of coal. The ansto study found that, taking waste management costs into account, nuclear power from an advanced plant "is cheaper than generating it from coal or a [clean coal] station...
...northern tip of greater Madrid. The high point of the local calendar was the traditional festival of Cristo de los Remedios in late August, when residents celebrated with fireworks, bullfights and bull running. The rest of the year, the demands of the town's residents were relatively simple: clean streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse - "a way of modernizing our corporate image," explains Rubén Holguera, its deputy mayor and councillor for urban development...