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...boiling underground wells that can produce clean steam energy. The central Italian region happens to be the world's unrivaled mecca of geothermal energy production. In 1904 the first experiment ever in steam-powered electricity was conducted in Larderello, when five light bulbs were lit by a dynamo propelled by geothermal liquid. Nine years later, the first steam-generated power plant was built in this area - once known as Valle del Diavolo (Devil's Valley) for the boiling liquid that bubbled out of the ground. But this swath of central Tuscany is not bathing in nostalgia. It continues to produce...
...fall of her junior year at Harvard, Ahn discovered her inner gourmand by joining the Dunster House Culinary Team, a group of students that prepares food for events hosted by Dunster House Masters Roger and Ann Porter. Ann Porter describes Ahn as “a little dynamo in the kitchen. She’s everywhere.” This year Ahn was one of the leaders of the Culinary Team, often spending as many as twenty hours a week in the kitchen. This consuming extracurricular is put to productive use—to the reluctant pleasure of her parents?...
...North American box office, and its 2001 sequel did even better: $226 million. Hollywood needed no further goading. It paired Jackie's pal Sammo Hung with Arsenio Hall for the TV drama Martial Law, which had a healthy two-year run. And it has put Jet Li, the little dynamo from Beijing, in the company of rappers: Aaliyah in the 2000 hit Romeo Must Die and now DMX in Cradle 2 the Grave...
...such advice is cheap from an academic dynamo who wrote 183 pages for a 25-page joint essay for a Dostoevsky proseminar in the Slavic department and “Introduction to the Theory of Sexuality” (Lit 105) his freshman year. “I had been contemplating these questions over the course of the semester,” Holden says. “Basically, I sat down in the library [during spring reading period] and just kept going back to write more. Every page opened more questions.” With this kind of determination, it?...
...accelerated Big Blue's transformation from a hardware dinosaur to a technology-services dynamo--a firm that, rather than just selling computers and software, can persuade FORTUNE 500 clients to let it provide all their technology needs, from support staff to data storage. Over just the past half-year, Palmisano has spent $3.5 billion for the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which gave IBM the people and contacts to turbocharge its services business, and has paid $2 billion for Rational Software, which provided new software-development tools. He agreed to sell IBM's money-losing hard-drive business to Hitachi...