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...plan to revoke the citizenship of Israeli Arabs and swap the land on which they live for the land on which West Bank settlements are built in order to maintain Israel's Jewish ethnic majority has been deonounced as "ethnic cleansing." In the past, he has suggested bombing banks, gas stations and populated areas of the Palestinian territories, and he said earlier this year that Arab members of the Knesset who had contact with Hamas should be executed...
...economic growth. "We feel there's a chance for Germany to be innovative, to create an industry and possibly be the leader," says Cornelia Viertl, a senior adviser at the German Federal Environment Ministry. Public awareness of environmental issues and a desire to be less dependent on Russian natural gas have created a favorable climate for renewable energies. According to law, 12.5% of the nation's electricity must come from renewables by 2010, up from the current 10%; 20% must be renewable...
...renewable programs," and prefers that the money come from California's General Fund or by raising taxes. Khosla maintains that Prop. 87 is a "limited, one-time extraction fee" that levels the playing field for alternative energy by providing the same sort of incentives that big oil, natural gas and coal have long enjoyed. Politics aside, investors like Khosla know going green means there's far more at stake than heaps of risk capital...
...traveling at 400 m.p.h. The hurricane-force wind squeegees water into a drain; in a trial run, it took 10 seconds for our hands to go from dripping wet to bone dry. As a hygienic bonus, expelled air and collected water are thoroughly filtered. The Airblade hits gas or, rather, petrol stations in Britain this fall and will probably find its way into U.S. rest rooms next year...
Ford Retires Taurus Nearly 7 million sold since 1985 The last Ford Taurus rolls off an Atlanta assembly line this week. In the mid-'90s it was America's most popular car. But sales sank as Ford neglected the sedan in favor of flashier gas guzzlers...