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Solar panels provide the energy needed to ensure continual cooling. The idea has been agonized over since the mid-'90s by Ray Olsson, ClimateWell's head of innovation, and as engineered by chief technology officer Goran Bölin, heat from water connected to the solar panels dries and crystallizes the salt, evaporating the water absorbed in it and storing energy inside the salt for as long as it is needed. As soon as water is remixed with the salt, that energy is released, again cooling the water tank...
...That's an assessment he shares with the U.S. President. "After a succession of statesmen?Jiang Zemin, Vladimir Putin, Kim Dae Jung, Sweden's Goran Persson, Madeleine Albright?have returned home to tell us how rational, well informed, witty, charming, and deeply popular Kim Jong Il is, President Bush's judgement that Kim is loathsome seems the only honest and truthful one," Becker writes. He measures Kim's odiousness not just in nuclear weapons but in corpses. Kim and his father, Kim Il Sung, are responsible for the deaths of millions of North Koreans, he estimates, including as many...
...world - after Norway - in terms of gender empowerment, according to the U.N. Development Program's 2004 report. Swedish women earn more money and hold more high-level political offices than their counterparts abroad. Child care is provided by the state, and although the Prime Minister, Goran Persson, is a man, he is also a "declared feminist." So what is Sweden's new political party, Feminist Initiative (FI), fighting for? "We have systematic wage discrimination, a growing problem with violence against women, and images of women as sexual objects confront us every day," party leader Gudrun Schyman told TIME. "What...
...team that won the recent Euro 2004 tournament was coached by the German Otto Rehnagel. In the final, they beat Portugal, coached by Brazil's Felipe Scolari. Today, almost every major African national team is run by a coach from France or Germany, England coached by Sweden's Sven Goran Erikson and Scotland is run by Germany's Berti Vogts...
...controversy could be stirred up by the Serbs' choice of leader for the force--General Goran Radosavljevic, a.k.a. Guri, chief of the gendarmerie. During the Kosovo war, he led a cluster of antiguerrilla teams called Operative Posse Groups (OPG). Several human-rights organizations claim OPG committed atrocities against civilians; the 2001 Human Rights Watch report alleges, for instance, that they killed 41 ethnic Albanian civilians in the village of Cuska in western Kosovo in May 1999, though no indictment has been issued against Radosavljevic. A New York court is also considering charges that he and other police officials are responsible...