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...unwilling to change the laws that prevented most nonwhite GIs from taking advantage of this money. In fact, the GI Bill in 1947 "threw open the doors of élite academies" only to the white masses. The same was true in the housing market, where discriminatory practices kept most people of color out of the flood of new housing, particularly in the suburbs. Kathryn Kaatz, Wayzata, Minn...
...skinny layers of photoactive chemicals needed for the technology, as compared with the thicker films used in crystalline-silicon solar modules. Though thin-film photovoltaics are cheaper than the crystalline ones on most rooftop solar panels, the technology has proved maddeningly difficult to mass-produce, which had kept it from going mainstream. But today thin film is the hottest part of the fastest-growing new energy source in the world. BCC Research, which charts technology markets, expects the global solar market to grow from $13 billion to $32 billion by 2012, with thin film expanding 45% a year. Masdar...
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove...
...Matthew Dale, AUSTIN, TEXAS There are some players who add a bit more just to get more p.r. I wasn't about that. My major goal was to hold up that trophy at the end, and I didn't want anything to get in the way of that. I kept it pretty quiet. I kept it simple...
...unwilling to change the laws that prevented most nonwhite GIs from taking advantage of this money. In fact, the GI Bill in 1947 "threw open the doors of élite academies" only to the white masses. The same was true in the housing market, where discriminatory practices kept most people of color out of the flood of new housing, particularly in the suburbs. Kathryn Kaatz, WAYZATA, MINN...