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...takes the same approach. But while Olitsky uses her cool New England basement, Clark, who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., decided to build a protected environment for her bottles. "I want them to grow old gracefully," she explains. Rather than investing in a refrigerated wine closet, she had a carpenter construct a simple room in her cellar and plunked in an air conditioner. Both women focus on bottles that cost between $10 and $15 apiece that will give plenty of pleasure in five to 10 years. Neither has much interest in holding the wines for many decades, a practice that requires...
...many Harvard alumni in India and this is a huge asset for the country as it moves its economy forward.”Summers spent Monday, March 27, the final day of his trip, in Dubai, where a Harvard Medical School program is collaborating with the local government to construct a 350,000-square-foot medical research facility.The emirate occupied the center of national security debates in the United States after a company based there announced plans to take over management of six major U.S. ports. The firm later said it would turn over operation of the ports...
Scott wants Wal-Mart to do its part too. He has promised to cut greenhouse-gas emissions at existing stores 20% over the next few years and pledged to construct new stores that are 25% to 30% more efficient. He wants Wal-Mart's fleet of more than 7,000 trucks to get twice as many miles per gallon by 2015. Factories that show Wal-Mart they're cutting air pollution--even those in China--will get preferential treatment in the supply chain. Wal-Mart says it's working with consumer-product manufacturers to trim their packaging and will reward...
...processed into a petroleum substitute. Polygeneration could cut the carbon emissions China generates by burning its copious coal reserves and reduce its dependence on oil imports. While his team continues to refine the technology--it's still more expensive than direct coal combustion--Li is lobbying the government to construct a $600 million demonstration plant, and he's optimistic he will see it built. "China is motivated to develop this technology," Li says. And the rest of the world is hoping it does. --By Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong...
...production. Western intelligence on the intentions and capabilities of nuclear aspirants is notoriously unreliable. Thus far, the IAEA says, Iran has the knowledge but not the capacity to make weapons. Some experts say that if Iran's enrichment facilities became fully operational, they could churn out enough material to construct two bombs a year. John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, said recently that "Iran, if it continues on its current path, will likely have the capability to produce a nuclear weapon within the next decade." What is already worrisome is that once Iran has the fissile material to make...