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ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES LCD screens are ubiquitous. They're in phones, PDAs, televisions and computers. Trouble is, they depend on flat, heavy, breakable glass and require a separate light source. OLEDs provide the benefits of LCD but, like a firefly, generate light on their own, so they are thinner and more energy efficient. Kodak, below, and DuPont's Olight group are each developing OLED displays. They use differing technologies but share the goal of the OLED revolution: displays made of pliable plastic...
...Alabama's attorney general to comply with the federal ruling that the religious artifact is inappropriate in a court of law. Instead Moore declared, to the amens of supporters gathered on the building's portico, "I will never, never deny the God upon whom our laws and country depend." The hundreds of protesters had flocked to Moore's monument last week as if to a revival, carrying Bibles, wooden crosses and placards with phrases like KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS. DUMP THE FEDS. But within 24 hours of Moore's speech, his judicial colleagues suspended him from the bench and ordered...
Meyer said that whether the current streak of low payout raises continues will depend on macroeconomic performance and the Corporation’s assessment of current University needs...
Harvard’s schools depend on endowment payout to differing degrees, and as a result are taking staggered losses...
...rice has quintupled since the latest round of fighting began. Her storeroom holds only a half-bag of flour among empty drums of cooking oil. There's a well, but no chlorine to treat the water. Some of the kids have dysentery. Nearly 200 children depend on her. She barely manages to feed them once a day. "But why?" she asks. "Why can't the Americans help, since I've got these documents, to carry away the children?" Under American immigration law, a child can only be adopted if his or her parents are dead or unable to provide support...