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...that can be stripped of its carbon, leaving mostly hydrogen behind. The alternative is to pulverize coal as power-plant operators do now but then rely on new hardware to separate the CO2 after burning. Both methods are at least 20 years away from being fully developed, predicts Ernest Moniz, co-director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Energy and the Environment and a former Under Secretary of the Department of Energy. "We're very early in the process," he says...
...DIED. Ernest Gallo, 97, vintner tycoon; just weeks after the death of his younger brother, cheesemaker Joseph Gallo; in Modesto, Calif. He grew up on a vineyard owned by his father, an immigrant from the wine-rich region of Piedmont, Italy. After their parents died, Ernest and his brother Julio began E. & J. Gallo Winery in 1933 with $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library. With Ernest directing the company's innovative marketing campaigns, the duo turned the distinctly American family business into one of the world's largest winemaking empires...
DIED. Joseph Gallo, 87, who broke away from the family wine business to form his own dairy empire, sparking a lifelong battle with his elder brothers, Ernest and Julio, over the use of the Gallo name; in Livingston, Calif. As a ranch manager for his brothers' wineries, he started a dairy in 1979 with 4,000 cows. Though he lost the fight to use the Gallo name, his Joseph Farms company, which encompasses nearly 13,000 acres, is now one of California's biggest makers of cheddar, Colby and other cheeses...
Uncertainty added to the fears. Starved for facts from the authorities, nobody?not even Guinness?seemed to know what the trade department's probe was all about. "I know of no reason why the department has decided to investigate Guinness, absolutely none," said Chief Executive Ernest Saunders. "My conscience is clear...
...CLAY, director of the library system in Fairfax County, Va., about the threat to remove thousands of books from its 21 libraries, including classics like Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, because they haven't been checked out in two years...