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...Rocky Mountain News are gone. Dozens more are shadows of their former selves, their revenues and resources gutted by the flight of classifieds, the gasping economy and the hordes of websites competing for readers' attention. The best that most print publishers can do is try to slow the drain-circling while frantically figuring out how to make money on the Web. This means cutbacks, layoffs, misery. (See the 10 most endangered newspapers in America...
...from McKinsey & Co. found that the U.S. economy could save $1.2 trillion through 2020 by investing $520 billion in various efficiency investments - and encouraging the switch to less wasteful cars is smart policy. But unless we end the era of cheap gas too, those savings will go down the drain...
...order to receive federal reimbursement for the subsidy consumers get for trading in their cars, dealers must first destroy the engine. One common method is to drain the car's oil and flood the engine with sodium silicate, or liquid glass. Dealers then turn the car on and rev the engine to let the solution harden. In just a few minutes, the car becomes inoperable. (Read "How Bad Are Auto Sales? 10 Questions and Answers...
...Last Thursday, I helped drain a swamp that a village community uses for drinking and bathing water. The rainy season will start sometime next month, and so the villagers asked us to help clear out the feet-deep layers of sludge at the bottom in order for clean rainwater to accumulate...
...stretched across the room, pots of smaller plants still months away from maturing line the walls. An irrigation system supplies water and chemical fertilizers to the plants via a hose that runs into the adjacent bathroom, where the toxic brew used to accelerate plants' growth is dumped down a drain...