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...almost the past decade, Gates had been working on his Ph.D. at the University of London. In the latter stages of the last academic year, Gates said he realized that “the clock [was] running out” and that he would need “some concentrated time” to devote his full attention to his degree...
...spending money young people had left at the end of the summer. Masked killer Michael Myers in Halloween 2 (a sequel to a remake of a series that launched more than 30 years ago) would battle the more impersonal, implacable Death in FD4, known as The Final Destination. The latter was given a slight edge by industry analysts because it was playing on 1,600 screens in 3-D, with a $3 surcharge for wearing goggles and watching severed heads propel into the audience. But FD4 slaughtered the competition with a surprising $28.4 million weekend gross, according to early industry...
...Stockholm, is the trash. It gets sucked through pneumatic tubes - at 43 m.p.h. (70 km/h) - after residents drop their household waste into special chutes: one for food that will get composted, another for paper to be recycled and a third for garbage that can be burned. As the latter gets incinerated, the energy produced is converted into district heating and electricity. The goal is both to keep garbage out of landfills and ultimately to produce half the neighborhood's energy...
That's no reason to party. Here's why: unlike the global crude-oil market, the market for natural gas is incredibly localized. The U.S. produces nearly 90% of what it consumes, and the rest is imported from Canada or from overseas - the latter amounting to only about 2.5% of U.S. consumption. Thus, a glut of domestic gas doesn't really affect imports...
...longer a threat," said a leaflet distributed by organizers. In anticipation of heavy-handed action by the authorities, the camp has been ringed by swiftly erected fencing and is guarded by volunteers perched on "tripods," vertiginous lookouts fashioned from scaffolding poles. It's unlikely, though, that these latter-day Wat Tylers will face a brutal expulsion from their temporary utopia. Climate campers promise "direct action," but any such activity will probably take place off site. And this time, the Met is determined to keep its policing low-key. (Read "A Case for Scotland Yard...