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...hundreds of former drug offenders, successfully helping them become law-abiding, self-sufficient members of society. It's a proven formula, in use right now, and it can put an end to the war on drugs once and for all. George McDonald and Harriet Karr-McDonald, Co-Founders, the Doe Fund, New York City...
George McDonald and Harriet Karr-McDonald, Co-Founders, The Doe Fund, NEW YORK CITY...
...daughter - but whose? All that's left of the young woman is 26 bones, some hair, a T-shirt and a necklace. This is the crime scene hunters came across one October day in 2000, west of Salt Lake City and not far from Interstate-80. This "Jane Doe" remains unidentified, but with a new hair analysis method, some pieces of this grim puzzle can be snapped into place...
...This is precisely the insight that shed some light on the identity of Jane Doe. Twenty strands of Jane Doe's hair were analyzed using this method discovered by Ehleringer and Cerling. By studying the variation in hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in hair and water in different parts of the United States, they are able to relate it to where a person lives. "From her hair we know that she spent the last two years of her life in the Salt Lake City area and the Intermountain West and that she moved every couple of months," says Salt Lake County...
...still a long way to go before you'll be able to fill your tank with switchgrass. Getting energy out of the tough cellulose molecules in a stalk of switchgrass is much more difficult than distilling it from corn, or better, sugar cane. Both the Department of Energy (DoE) and private companies like Broomfield, Colo.-based Range Fuels are developing the technology to commercialize cellulosic ethanol, but that day might still be years away. "We're doing serious technological innovation on this," Khosla told TIME recently. "Oil is a big market, and there will be breakthroughs...