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...That expectation was given a boost in September when First Solar, the Arizona-based solar-module manufacturing giant, announced that it had landed a deal to build a solar field bigger than Manhattan near the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia. The project will dwarf the largest solar plants to date, and eventually generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of 3 million Chinese homes. To fulfill the huge demands, First Solar says it's considering building a solar-module manufacturing facility in the city to support the project. While financial details were not released, news of the deal caused First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tower of Power | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...forget that the CIA isn't the only organization with questionable people on its payroll. Since the beginning of the war, NATO has been bribing drug smugglers to let fuel pass through the Khyber Pass from Pakistan into Afghanistan. NATO payments, thousands of dollars for each truck, have to dwarf anything the CIA is giving to Ahmed Wali Karzai. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' offensive in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the CIA Can't Be Picky About Afghan Partners | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...created a lucrative trafficking niche for La Familia. Michoacán has long been a meth-producing region, much like the northern state of Durango is known for making most of Mexico's heroin (called "brown mud"). La Familia and other Mexican gangs manufacture meth at industrial superlabs that dwarf small-town U.S. shops like those depicted on the AMC cable drama Breaking Bad, churning out tons of the white, flaky crystal each day. And while U.S. law blocks the export of pseudoephedrine to Mexico, La Familia can easily access that key chemical by way of sources in Asia, shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Major Blow to Mexico's Masters of Meth | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

These “ultra-faint” dwarf galaxies, which lack stars and gas and are mainly composed of dark matter, were previously thought to be accredit only by galaxy-galaxy harassment, in which one large galaxy such as the Milky Way stripped a much smaller galaxy of its luminous matter...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dwarf Galaxies’ Existence Explained | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Previous studies did not look at the relationship between two similar sized galaxies, rather only the relationship between large galaxies and dwarf galaxies because that is how the majority of the universe is composed today...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dwarf Galaxies’ Existence Explained | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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