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...electricity from under the Mississippi River at Hastings, Minn.--a town willing to give a new idea a try. "Everybody likes a science experiment, and this is just a big science experiment," says Tom Montgomery, Hastings' public-works director. The barge-mounted turbines will be unconventional, but Krouse's design yields twice the energy of earlier versions--and doesn't require new dams, which take years to license...
...Microsoft's IE developers knew that they were up against Firefox's very successful earlier versions, so they plucked a few key elements for the IE7 design. For starters, the navigation bar of the browser takes up very little room, allowing more space for the websites themselves. The familiar buttons-refresh, home, favorites and one-touch print-are all nestled in, but when you start it up, IE7 doesn't display the "menu bar," containing all of the deeper options people tend not to use on a daily basis...
...People in the Intelligent Design movement don’t think they’re unreasonable,” he added...
...education requirement. Why not rationalism and empiricism, or idealism and materialism, or the subjective and the objective? Finally, if the requirement is meant to be the union of all or any of these (some students concentrate on Islamic jihad, others on the Reformation, still others on the argument from design or the ontological argument for God’s existence, still others on biblical history), it just doesn’t hang together as a coherent requirement. Again, we have to keep in mind that the requirement will attract attention from far and wide, and for a long time...
...health plan of all the plans that were tracked had both high performance and low disparity. The conclusions reached in the study can help plans develop programs to improve equality in treatment, said Trivedi. “[The study] provides specific information that can help [health care plans] design programs to eliminate disparities,” he said. Ayanian said that the Medicare program should work closely with health plans to monitor the quality of care for different racial and ethnic groups. Most health plans don’t currently even collect information on health and ethnicity, said Trivedi...