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...director Steven Spielberg has called "the science of eventuality." Still, scientist Stephan Schuster, who led the team at Penn State, isn't holding his breath. "What I'm trying to say is that there is a workable route to do that, but it is at this time technically, and cost-wise and time-wise, not feasible." Guess we'll just have to wait for Jurassic Park...
Other clashes will turn on personality and style. Conservatives will say McCain's moderate record cost him votes. Moderates will say he ran too far to the right--and erred by picking Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin has vocal defenders who think that she helped the ticket and should run for President herself in 2012. In Congress, some Republicans will want to cooperate with President-elect Barack Obama, heeding the voters' desire for bipartisanship. Others will seek to draw a clear contrast between their ideas...
Even so, buying your own windmill isn't cheap. A turbine that could produce most of your family's electricity might cost as much as $80,000 and take as long as two decades to pay back, depending on wind strength and state subsidies. (The 30% federal tax credit is currently capped...
...last year and 10 in 2006. The problem has grown so serious that insurers last May declared the Gulf of Aden a “war risk” zone and increased the premiums of ships traveling there. Avoiding pirate waters is no easy task—it can cost ships five to 10 days of extra travel at $30,000 per day to go around Africa’s troubled waters or $200,000 to avoid them by paying Egypt for use of the Suez Canal. IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre also concluded that worldwide attacks...
...Chinese territory's economy - highly dependent on financial services and trade - is proving vulnerable to the global downturn. As Europe and the U.S. slump, so have merchandise exports from Hong Kong, which in the third quarter grew at their slowest pace in more than six years. Hit by higher costs, slowing orders and tightening credit, thousands of factories owned by Hong Kong firms are closing up in southern China's industrial heartland. This week, HSBC, the city's largest bank, said it would layoff about 450 people in Hong Kong due to deteriorating business conditions and a poor outlook...