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...brightly painted buildings with solar-paneled roofs. He points out that each unit actually produces more energy than it uses, so residents can sell their surplus power to badenova - at j0.54 per kW-h. It's another advantage to going alternative that appeals to consumers like medical technician Angelika Ewen, 51. She and her partner, Beate Grzeska, 46, an accountant, have lived in one of Disch's solar-powered homes for almost three years. Last year, they paid just j350 for all their utilities combined, including water. Plus, they earned €2,200 for the power they supplied to badenova...
...DIED. Ewen Montagu, 84, British lawyer and judge who in 1943 as a Royal Navy lieutenant commander led the counterespionage team that created "the man who never was," one of the major intelligence hoaxes of the war; in London. The ploy, recounted in Montagu's 1953 book (later a movie), involved a body that washed up on the coast of Spain outfitted in a Royal Marines uniform and with papers indicating that the next Allied thrust would come in Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily. The German high command fell for the ruse, and the beaches of Sicily were only lightly...
...primarily a teacher of journal writing, Davis strove to walk “the thin line between helping her students work on their writing and emancipating them as people,” recalled daughter Lydia Davis of Port Ewen...
...their blue jeans and baseball caps, the U.N. weapons inspectors roaming around Baghdad may look like dotcom alums with clipboards, but they were selected with care. "We're not taking people off the street for this job," says Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), the agency searching for biological and chemical weapons in Iraq. Buchanan says that of the hundreds of applications the U.N. rejected for the 302 spots filled on the inspections team so far, some were very impressive, some not. "We have the adventurers who just think it would be cool...
Korine, who wrote the scabrous Kids, then made on his own the widely praised and reviled Gummo, had already planned his new film--the largely improvised story of a schizophrenic (Scottish actor Ewen Bremner), his bullying dad (Werner Herzog) and pregnant sister (Chloe Sevigny)--when Von Trier & Co. suggested he make it under Dogme strictures. "I liked the idea of it being a rescue action from the elevation of cosmetics," he says, "the idea of not hiding behind the trickery." Bremner found that the stripped-down system let him focus on his craft: "I don't have to reserve...