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...swats away such complaints with a disdain that isn't likely to improve relations. "It's crap!" snaps a senior Administration official. Every member of Congress wants special treatment, the official says, and if you deploy the President too often, he wastes his time and loses his power to convert. "You don't get the President involved at the start," says a White House official. "You set the table and insert him at key points in the process to get key things done, to make key calls to certain people [to tell them it's] time...
...have to bring real innovation to the game," says Johann Eliasch, CEO of Head--who exited golf because he didn't think his company could do so there. Tennis was another matter; last summer Head launched the Intelligence line, which uses piezoelectric fibers in the frame. The fibers convert the energy produced when the ball strikes the strings to electrical impulses and then redistribute that energy optimally to maximize power. (Goran Ivanisevic used one to win Wimbledon...
...COLIN FIRTH, co-star of Bridget Jones's Diary Oscar Wilde by RICHARD ELLMANN "Brilliant. It's got me wanting to convert my daily banalities into epigrams...
Since 1998, wind power has been the fastest-growing new source of electricity in the world, expanding an average of 30% a year. Sales of photovoltaic panels (also known as solar cells), which convert the sun's energy directly into electricity, grew by 37% last year. At high-tech companies and hospitals, executives with a special concern about power disruptions are looking at fuel cells to supply clean and reliable power on site (albeit at prices that currently remain higher on average than those charged by the big utilities...
...solar in the world, and 75% of the 4 million devices sold so far are on rooftops, partly because of government incentives. The experience of selling mass quantities of photovoltaics at home helped firms such as Sharp, with 17.5% of the world market for the basic modules that convert solar energy to electricity, and Kyocera, with 14.6% of this module market, pull ahead of American rivals...