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...Literature Without Guts, won an award from the Académie Française in June - argues that the overproduction is fueled by a cult of personality and by kid-gloved critics who are often shoddy novelists themselves and thus disinclined to attack falling standards. Other authors, he charges, divert attention from their otherwise unremarkable texts with posturing or controversy. "There are so many new titles and writers we can't take them all, and you often end up taking some off the shelves without having read them to make room for incoming books," complains a bookstore owner in central...
Other technologies can work their own little miracles. Micro-hydroelectric plants are already operating in numerous nations, including Kenya, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The systems divert water from streams and rivers and use it to run turbines without complex dams or catchment areas. Each plant can produce as much as 200 kilowatts--enough to electrify 200 to 500 homes and businesses--and lasts 20 years. One plant in Kenya was built by 200 villagers, all of whom own shares in the cooperative that sells the power...
STEP 9: LET YOUR SOFTWARE DO THE WORK. The more you filter out spam and divert e-mail lists to their own folders, the more manageable your in box becomes...
Later that day, Gomes came to the police station and penned the following confession: “I, Randy Jay Gomes, diverted funds from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals to accounts over which I had control, two of mine and one of Suzanne Pomey’s. I initially stole money to buy drugs, specifically crystal meth, and continued to divert out more as the situation escalated. I also used some of the money to buy some electronic equipment and to travel. I was never proud of what I did and hoped one day when I had beat the addiction...
...STEP 9: LET YOUR SOFTWARE DO THE WORK. The more you filter out spam and divert e-mail lists to their own folders, the more manageable your in box becomes...