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...items. Take solar power, where Sanyo is a significant competitor. Although numerous start-ups in the U.S., China and Taiwan have been investing in the technology over the past two years, generating electricity from solar panels is still at least twice as expensive as buying it from the fossil fuel--reliant U.S. utility grid. Experts say the solar-power industry will need support from government subsidies and incentives for years to come...
...that Nonaka may simply have been ahead of her time. Better-financed companies are attempting the same kind of corporate reinvention with more success. Archer Daniels Midland, the U.S. food-processing giant, has become a hot stock-market play as America's largest producer of ethanol, an alternative fuel. "The direction toward environmental issues is the right one," says Tatsuya Mizuno, an analyst with Fitch Ratings. But it's too soon for some CEOs to bet that going green will get them...
...number of things were supposed to happen in 60 days, and those things have not happened," Hill said. "We don't have Yongbyon nuclear facilities shut down; we don't have them monitored with international observers. We do not have any fuel oil delivered to [North Korea]." South Korea was standing by, Hill said, to deliver 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil to Pyongyang, the agreed-upon reward for decommissioning the reactor, in preparation for the second, more ambitious phase of the disarmament deal. If the Kim Jong Il regime makes good on its word to dismantle its weapons...
...Pentagon could finance the war at least through the end of June by shifting existing funds. Then there's the so-called "Feed and Forage" Act, a Civil War--era law that lets the President incur debt, without congressional approval, for such wartime troop expenses as "clothing, subsistence, fuel, quarters, transportation and medical supplies...
...With great pride, I announce that as of today, our dear country, Iran, is among the countries of the world that produces the industrial level of nuclear fuel...