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...Does Science Matter? In China, I watched Chu tour the headquarters of a company called ENN - the name is a hybrid of energy and innovation - that was founded as a tiny gas supplier in 1989 by a cabdriver with $200 in his pocket and has expanded into a clean-energy conglomerate with more than 24,000 employees. Chu peppered his hosts with technical questions as he checked out a sleek factory churning out superefficient solar panels, a greenhouse where genetically engineered algae were excreting fuel, a prototype for a coal-gasification plant in Inner Mongolia and a research lab with...
...same period in 2007. Daily readership of the newspaper alone has dropped by close to half since 1997. Two years ago, in what seems a surprising lack of team spirit, the VG Nett folks strung a triumphal banner across their offices when online readership surpassed print readership: "Storre enn mor!" (Bigger than...
...display of public erotica, began enforcing laws prohibiting 1,600 hawkers from unduly exposing certain parts of the female anatomy, specifically breasts, bellies and buttocks. Vendors, of course, claim the restrictions will shrink demand for betel nuts. "It's all about competition," says 19-year-old hawker Hsiao Enn, who works in a crimson miniskirt and revealing blouse. "But I have principles. I'm not so desperate as to show my private parts." Josephine Ho, a professor at Taiwan's National Central University, says hawkers should be allowed to bare all they can bear, if only for the sake...
...STOP NEWS SHOPS For news junkies, the Environmental News Network www.enn.com provides a clearinghouse for relevant bulletins from the Associated Press, Reuters and other wire services. Full access costs $12.95 a year; for those unwilling to pay, ENN writers churn out four free stories daily, plus an array of multimedia reports. Another good source for all the eco-news you can use is at www.ens.lycos.com...
Some Estonians have concerns about the brash way in which Lithuania declared outright independence, but sympathy with the decision is widespread. Says Enn- Arno Sillari, First Secretary of the independent Estonian Communist Party: "I'd like to think the Lithuanians are paving the way for us." The Estonians prefer to take more measured steps toward sovereignty. Instead of a complete break with Moscow, the Supreme Soviet two weeks ago called for an unspecified transition period leading to "the formation of the constitutional institutions of the Republic of Estonia...