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Basalt sequestration is one of several efforts to boost Iceland's role in climate-change science, including research into soil carbon sequestration and hydrogen-powered transportation. And Grimsson isn't above doing some firsthand testing. "I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I was the first person to exceed the speed limit in a hydrogen-powered car," he says. "I wanted to test its capability...
There's a lot of distrust in South American countries that their natural resources won't be accrued for the people living there. We saw that firsthand in Bolivia. We had been trying to convince the government to produce natural gas, liquefy it and ship it to North America, but there was an uprising, and the President got thrown out of office. At the end of the day, the commodity is so important to countries as a revenue source that it will eventually move to market. We're just going through a step change as to how countries get compensated...
...secure his post, Unger will have to make haste in putting his height, his confidence, and all four of his pitches—fastball, changeup, curveball, slider—together into a winning package. According to Brown, the coach who witnessed Unger’s summer transformation firsthand, the big righty welcomes the challenge...
...fully respect and admire both of the latter identities—for their contributions to both the professional world and to the health of family life— these two seemingly fulfilling options have their limits; for example, while my own mother is a typical superwoman, I witnessed firsthand the career sacrifices she made in order to accommodate her family above all else. Furthermore, even in the U.S., many families cannot subsist on one income. While the progressive agenda of America’s Second Wave feminists during the 1960s and 1970s boldly paved the way for the possibility...
...lullaby, plays during intense visual depictions of gory births and deaths. In interviews, del Toro has attributed some of this familiarity with violence to his upbringing in the still-violent culture of Mexico, and that seems to make sense—only someone who has seen beheadings firsthand can conceive of the film’s imagery. In “Pan’s Labyrinth” all cinematic elements work together so seamlessly that the actors and the effects eventually merge. The dramatic finesse of the ensemble cast build upon del Toro’s vision, although...