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...Forty years ago, Lake Erie, one of the largest lakes in the world, was also among the most polluted. Industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan dumped waste into the water as fast as was necessary to keep their industrial operations working. Lake Erie reached a point where it could hardly support a population of fish. The companies involved were not being malicious as much as they were being brazenly capitalistic. Some of the CEO's who were the heads of the largest polluters may have even been fishermen. They desire to make money trumped their personal feelings. (Read: "Comeback...
Spending Big The good news from Germany is that lots of money buys lots of stuff. Halle today has a new network of fast highways and rail tracks, a renovated historic city center, ultramodern water-treatment plants, a technology center on the site of a former Soviet army base just outside town, and - most needed of all - thousands of solid new jobs in a rebuilt industrial sector that has become home to U.S. firms such as computer maker Dell and Dow Chemical. Mayor Szabados waves to a corner of her office. Leaning up against the wall there are two dozen...
...coal supply, which generates half the nation's electricity, is shuttled from mines in Wyoming to the rest of the country by train. If a pandemic simultaneously sickened enough coal workers--or the tiny number of engineers qualified to operate those trains--supplies of coal could dwindle fast, switching off the lights in much of the country. "We'd be dealing with two calamities if a pandemic hit," says Osterholm. "The human morbidity from the flu and the collateral damage for the just-in-time economy...
...last 25 strokes, Radcliffe kicked it into another gear, mustering enough strength to push into Yale and beat Princeton by 0.7 seconds.“We knew that it was everyone’s race from the starting line and that we were going up against five extremely fast crews and that it was going to take an extraordinary race even to medal,” senior co-captain Anna Kendrick said. “To be less than a second behind a national champion crew was really exciting for us.”Brown, Dartmouth and Northeastern rounded...
...young Russians interested in science and technology. "If five or 10 years ago, everyone wanted to be in business, now they are interested in technology - and our museum is playing a big part in that," says Laveikin. "After the financial crisis ends, they won't be interested in fast money anymore. Now we need to forget about business and oil and focus on rejuvenating our technology sector." (See pictures of the Hubble telescope...