Word: coale
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...from Handley's play Idioglossia, it illustrates the familiar movie moral that wounded creatures are powerful ones, with powerful lessons to teach those who would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted, who has directed vigorous woodland women before (Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist), focuses on the weird wonder of Foster. Of course her portrayal is a stunt; of course the viewer is aware of the distance between the actress and her role. Yet she undercuts cliche with a fearless, fierce, beautifully attuned performance...
...sure was a dinosaur. If enough of it were collected, such a sample could, in theory, be cloned into a living specimen -- just like in the movies. Woodward, an associate professor at Brigham Young University, extracted the DNA from two bone fragments found in a Utah coal mine, where they had been protected by muck and never fossilized...
...mirrors to focus sunlight and heat liquids moving through pipes in long troughs. This array produces large amounts of electricity -- nearly 200 times as much as the Tennant Creek system -- for an estimated 8.5 cents to 14 cents per KW-H. That is at least double the cost of coal power, but solar proponents argue that the apparent price difference is highly misleading. They say the cost of oil and coal should be adjusted to reflect uncertainties over supplies, price volatility and environmental damage; estimates for the pollution costs of coal, for example, start at 1 cents to 3 cents...
Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Massachusetts and author of The Prize, is more cautious about forecasting the coming solar era; he has watched market pressures obliterate past predictions about the future of energy. He also notes that oil and coal companies are not standing idle but are vigorously trying to lower costs and provide cleaner- burning fuels. "The critical question," Yergin contends, "is whether any innovation meets the test of the marketplace." Older and perhaps wiser than they were in the 1970s, the apostles of renewable energy claim they are now poised to meet that test...
...tried to escape, he was sentenced to 12 years in a notorious gulag where so many inmates died of hunger, cold and beatings, he said, that "no one wept, no one expressed sorrow, no one asked how anyone died." After his release in 1964, he was sent to a coal mine, where he worked 13 years, until the dust ruined his lungs. From then on, after marrying and raising three children, he lived on meager rations and edible roots in a remote village near the Chinese frontier...