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...watched 24 last night, so I'm just remembering that episode." But people have a harder time making sense of dreams. Maybe 24 caused the dream, we think - or maybe we're having a premonition of an attack. We love to interpret dreams widely, and those acts of interpretation give dreams meaning. (Read "Can't Sleep? Turn Off the Cell Phone...
...only digit with a message. The thumb talks too, but generally in happier tones, with an upward point indicating approval, good news or some other nicety. That pleasant gesture is thought to have sprung from the grim business of gladiatorial combat, when spectators in the Roman Coliseum would give a thumbs-up or down to determine whether a beaten competitor should live or die. What began in Rome similarly went global...
...there any lesson from this work beyond, you know, next time you see Donald try not to give him the finger? Chandler believes there is. Most of the time we flip someone off, he points out, we do so secretly, in the privacy of the car or after the person has walked away - a good idea if we want to avoid getting slugged. But that doesn't mean no one gets hurt...
Denmark's dominance of wind power was born in the Riso National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy. Riso, founded in 1958 to focus on nuclear research, is easy to miss on the road to the university town of Roskilde; only the test turbines on its grounds give away the campus's purpose. Turbine manufacturers from around the world test at Riso, where researchers are so expert at honing the aerodynamics of a blade that they've helped turn wind turbines from backyard mills to multi-megawatt farms...
Moskalenko, however, is not ready to give up on Russian justice, in spite of her uphill battles to make sure local courts actually deliver it. (The government, at one point, unsuccessfully tried to disbar her, and Moskalenko believes that she too may be targeted by enemies.) "The current system is such that the prosecution has a big advantage over the defense," she says. Among Moskalenko's clients are the children of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who reported on human-rights abuses and was slain in October 2006. Moskalenko does not see the acquittal last week of Politkovskaya's alleged contract...