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...World Bank, the UNDP and various donors, wants to provide energy to 300 million people, as well as schools, hospitals and clinics in 50,000 communities worldwide over 10 years. The key will be to match the right energy source to the right users. For example, solar panels that convert sunlight into electricity might be cost-effective in remote areas, while extending the power grid might be better in Third World cities...
...never heard a word of Nash in my college courses on New Criticism, So I will now exert all my analytic powers to convert his witticism to Holy Writicism. His forte was the metrical line so unbalanced as to be bonkers, For while other poets, even after they had renounced rhyming as old-hat, would still compose verse in a familiar meter, Nash would keep a line going longer than a Bishop Sheen speech or a Jerry Colonna note, while winding toward some tortured rhyme and keeping readers guessing whether he'd finish up in Yonkers, or call certain people...
...owners, Bob and Rae Anne Donlin tried to convert the space, which had been run on a non-profit educational charter, into a bookstore called Passim. But the demand for folk music never died down, and they soon found themselves “forced into booking music again,” according to Smith. The Donlins were soon doing so well, they at one point turned Bruce Springsteen down...
Furious that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hasn't halted terror attacks on Israelis, the U.S. wants thorough reform of his Palestinian Authority. Mainly, American diplomats are pushing to convert Arafat's presidency to a purely ceremonial post, shifting the real business of running the government to a new, popularly elected Prime Minister. But Arafat has other ideas...
...Latin. "I was interested in why people behaved the way they did, what makes them fall in love or start wars. I discovered that science provided me with more answers than philosophy did," she explains. Her aim of "meshing science with society" has something of the zeal of the convert. "I'd like to see people attending scientific discussions the way they would go to a concert or the cinema," says Greenfield, who is married to fellow scientist and textbook author Peter Atkins. If anyone can persuade the public to devote their Saturday nights to science, she will...