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...weight in gold. Giant tires are in increasingly short supply as the extraction industry hits overdrive to chase rising commodities prices. As demand for raw materials grows in the booming economies of India and China, mining companies are scurrying to dig deeper, faster and more efficiently for coal, copper and other materials. In doing so, they're loading up on the world's biggest trucks (40-plus-ft. tall) and coaxing mileage from their old vehicles--all of which require new $20,000 tires as often as once a year. Unlike tires for automobiles, which can be cranked...
...chef Thanunya Kaikaew, who has a cookbook of healthy recipes to her name, and take in the fabulous sunset. THE EUGENIA: This 12-room, colonial-style Sukhumvit gem, www.theeugenia.com, doubles as an antiques repository for Taiwanese owner and Bangkok resident Eugene Yeh. Those are Yeh's hand-beaten copper bathtubs and four-poster beds in the rooms, and his vintage cars in the garage. These and other thoughtful touches - including complimentary minibars and free wi-fi access - will have you feeling quite at home. A cozy cigar lounge-cum-library, beds adorned with Belgian linen and down-filled pillows...
...Here's a piece of technology that should empower people from the bottom up to make self-sustaining, new forms of infrastructure. And I think the lesson here is that technology, 50 years ago, was all mega-technology. Big Blue and mainframes... Ma Bell had pieces of copper wire running from everybody's ear to everybody else's ear. It took 100 years to do it. It was big centralized power companies, nuclear power plants. Transmissions lines. Big, centralized phone companies.... And then look what happened. Communications is now point of use. You carry a cell phone. Computing - you carry...
...spin a coin than to flip a coin, because a coin spun on a desk would spin many more times than a flipped coin would turn over,” Vaupel said. Mosteller further explained that it was a penny made in 1942, and thus contained alloys other than copper because of the need for copper during the war. “He showed me the results—the coin came up heads almost two-thirds of the time,” said Vaupel. “[Mosteller] smiled and said, ‘This, Mr. Vaupel...
...Prosecuting these acts is not easy. One problem is the inability to track copper parts and tie them to an offense. Hernandez recommends spray painting or etching copper pipes for identity purposes. Meanwhile, companies like American Scrap Metal in Dallas check photo IDs and turn away scrap that looks too new. Birmingham's Standard Heating & Air Conditioning Co. and Dalco are even starting to attach alarms to AC units. That may sound drastic, until you realize that in the South air conditioners are a life or death issue. "Without air conditioning, nobody would live in this hell hole," said Points...