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...unsurprisingly, the answer is no. Turns out the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) has already done the legwork on this one. In a report released in February the EIA found that the administration-backed energy bill recently passed by the House of Representatives, HR 6, would make only a “negligible” contribution toward national energy independence...
...HUPD officer was dispatched to take a report of a stolen yellow 18-speed Specialized HR Sport Mountain bicycle from a rack by Grays Hall...
...remembers. He experienced his car's pulling power again in the fall while driving from Paris to Berlin. "It's a French icon like the beret or the baguette," he says. Dargnies offers three options: the Essential Tour, a review of the city's must-see monuments (1 hr. 30 min., $90); the three-hour Magic Tour ($155), which covers a wider selection of Parisian attractions; and the Unique Tour, an ? la carte option allowing daylong excursions in and around Paris ($178 for the first three hours and $47 for every additional hour). Each car comes with a chauffeur...
...Germany is further along the reform path on which France is now gingerly embarking. After a scorching debate that enlivened leftist opposition to the Social Democratic?Green coalition of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the government launched its reform in January. Its controversial centerpiece: a €10 Praxisgebühr, or quarterly fee every patient must pay on the first doctor's visit during that three-month period. The fee was widely attacked by doctors and patients alike as awkward and onerous. But along with costlier fees for unreferred visits to specialists, a larger patient share of drug costs...
...churning out 322,000 metric tons of aluminum each year. Alcoa says it will recycle materials and use the most eco-friendly production technology to control fumes and minimize waste discharge into the sea and groundwater. It is determined to "play a sustainable role in the community," says Hrönn Pétursdóttir, the company's community relations manager at Fjardaál. "We're going to be here for a long time." To generate power for Alcoa's smelter, Landsvirkjun is building the Kárahnjúkar dam; at 190 m high...