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...Alternative-energy developers are studying numerous small hydro projects, mostly along the coasts. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued 11 three-year "preliminary permits" for hydro, with installations at locations including Puget Sound in Washington, San Francisco's Golden Gate and New York City's East River. An additional 38 applications are pending. Hydro developer Verdant Power Inc. already has fish-monitoring equipment in the East River, with plans to install two turbines in November and four more early next year...
...eight-hour working day in 1912, maternity benefits in 1928 and profit sharing in 1934. Today Jamshedpur, with free housing, free hospitals and free schools, sports stadiums and clean streets, remains the envy of the country. In 2004, the U.N. chose it - along with Melbourne and San Francisco - as one of six examples of urban-planning excellence. J.N. Tata's ideals survive today. Tata Sons, the holding company that manages the group, is 65.8% owned by 11 charitable trusts, which spent $379.2 million on social causes in 2003-04 alone. Over the following 12 months, Tata companies donated another...
Whenever he needed advice while growing up in Yakima, Wash., Doug Meckelson always turned to his grandmother and favorite mentor, Revay Meckelson. She died in 1987, but he found similar sage counsel when he volunteered five years ago at a senior center in San Francisco. "As I listened to these elders," recalls Meckelson, 45, "I thought how great it'd be to set up a website where cybergrandparents could share their life experiences to help others, just as my grandmother had done with...
After the war ended, the Tribes set sail for San Francisco, landing two days before Alexander, the younger son, turned one. George became a car salesman, and the Russian-speaking Laurence enrolled in the public schools...
...yelp, on the other hand, founder Jeremy Stoppelman's dog Darwin romps freely around the cubicleless San Francisco office. Like YouTube, Yelp.com was started by two former PayPal whizzes in their 20s. Last month 1.5 million people visited their fledgling site to share information about local businesses in 25 major cities. Volunteer reviewers, or Yelpers, read and write about restaurants, stores and services. Yelp's founders say they were inspired by their frustration in trying to find good doctor recommendations online. Their idea was to improve on existing tools like Citysearch, which Yelp's founders call...