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...this list of potential applications--and their untapped economic potential--that has attracted so much interest. The U.S. Navy and Army are investigating diamond's usefulness both as a next-generation power-grid switch and as a wear-resistant coating for military equipment. Gemesis, a Sarasota, Fla., company that has been selling man-made gemstones for four years, sets aside a chunk of its R&D budget for the electronics industry. Even DeBeers, the dominant producer of mined gemstone diamonds, has acknowledged the la- tent power of synthetic diamonds (the preferred industry term). DeBeers has maintained a small business selling...
...lights go on When customers--here, the NFL--flip the switch, the electricity is delivered, as always, by a local utility. In buying RECs, however, they have helped offset carbon emissions by resupplying the grid with green power...
...afternoon. For much of the day, Michael Segal ’09, also a Crimson editorial editor, was the only HSI member passing out fliers in front of the Coop building on Harvard Square. One of the fliers, produced by the pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs, included a grid of point-by-point rebuttals against Carter’s assertions. It claimed, for example, that the description in “Palestine” of the security barrier as an “imprisonment wall” is unfair because it was created to prevent terrorists from entering the country...
...much of the day, Michael Segal ’09, also a Crimson editorial editor, was the only HSI member passing out fliers in front of the Coop building on Harvard Square. One of the fliers, produced by the pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs, included a grid of point-by-point rebuttals against Carter’s assertions...
...challenge is enormous. By some estimates, half the daily sectarian attacks in Baghdad flow out of Sadr City. Home to more than 2 million people, the area is a world unto itself. From the air, the perfect street grid makes it seem like a pocket of civic order. But a glance down any street reveals the place for what it is, one of the world's biggest and poorest slums. Clouds of flies roll over roads and alleyways covered in the stench of rotting garbage and open sewers. Houses are so close together in some areas that Mahdi Army fighters...