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...thought, "Wow, it's going to run on cow dung, there will be all sorts of issues. We'll send engineers, and if we can get any data..." Any data? Those machines ran flawlessly around the clock. Each village went from never seeing electricity, never having a light bulb at night, to being fully electrified. They're small villages. But they were fully electrified for nearly half year each. And the only fuel - there's no infrastructure for that either - that went into each of these boxes was [methane gas from] cow dung. A pit next...
...will take more time than we had thought to get wholesale adoption, but unfortunately, when you look at history, that's true of the light bulb, it's true of electricity. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, and the next morning everybody read about it - by candlelight. A lot of good technology goes from indefensible to indispensable because, by pure logic, the day before it was invented, it wasn't invented, and everybody lived a different way. So the day after it's invented, you don't see people saying, "Yesterday my life was a mess, and today...
...company known for downplaying individual performers that after she announced her retirement in 1973, Balanchine created a work in her honor, Cortège Hongrois, which remains in the company's repertoire. Blunt, generous and emotional, Hayden, who taught until her death, dazzled in diverse ballets like the bouncy, light-hearted Stars and Stripes, with music by John Philip Sousa, and Illuminations, an allegorical meditation on the life of Arthur Rimbaud...
...PLASMA LCD TVs have a backlight that's electronically filtered to produce the microscopic color pixels that make up the image, whereas plasma TVs have pixels that emit colored light themselves. LCD TVs are better than plasmas in bright rooms and are very affordable up to about 42 in. Plasma TVs offer deep blacks and rich colors and can be viewed from wider angles than LCD TVs and are available in larger sizes...
...criminals do. Mohammed told CIA interrogators that he had inadvertently packed a copy of the Bojinka plan with all the targeted flights and explosion times in his bag on the Philippine Airlines test run. Nobody noticed. Today someone might--just as a flight attendant noticed Richard Reid trying to light his shoe in a failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic plane. "We're lucky the people we're up against are so incompetent," says Larry Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism official...