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Homes might soon be equipped with their own generators, thanks to fuel-cell technology, which promises to be cheaper and less polluting than today's power plants. Fuel cells use an electrochemical process without combustion to convert fuel into electricity. Plug Power demonstrated the first home model in Latham, N.Y., last week. The units should be available to consumers within two years for $3,000 to $5,000, and could shave power bills...
...full-fledged convert, Pinsky signed on as "Dr. Drew" to what quickly became Loveline, the hit Los Angeles-based radio show he still plays host on (and which MTV's version is based on). His growing medical practice confirmed his suspicions about kids: "Behind closed doors, they wouldn't talk at all. In my white coat, I was an authority figure. I was Dad, their worst nightmare." In a medium in which kids were comfortable, he could "demystify" difficult issues surrounding sexuality and "maybe make adolescence less painful...
...year-old second son of the former President become the front runner in this year's gubernatorial race, Bush seems so different, so much softer around the edges. To help save his family, Bush recently made perhaps the ultimate leap for the son of the ultimate Wasp: he converted to Catholicism. It wasn't entirely an alien experience. Bush has been accompanying his wife to church off and on since their 1974 marriage, and many observers had erroneously concluded that he had already adopted her religion. But it happened only three years ago, and while some critics may say this...
Plans are in the works to convert Hemenway Gymnasium, a recreational building owned by FAS, into an admissions and financial aid complex for the College and GSAS, according to Field...
Jennifer G. Schirmer, a lecturer in SocialStudies and an associate of programs onnon-violent sanctions and cultural survival at theWeatherhead Center for International Affairs, hasworked in Guatemala interviewing militaryofficials about the war and their evaluations onthe success of attempts to convert country todemocracy...