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...nations to believe that we are indeed in the middle of an environmental crisis. Thankfully, his Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth also generated powerful publicity. But, you Americans around him, please stop goading him to get into politics again. Leave him alone. In one of the pictures, Gore's liquid eyes somehow give me the impression that deep down inside he is sad-probably about the world in general and humanity in particular. Let him be. He's greater than the presidency. Sung-Chau Cheng, Kaohsiung, Taiwan...
...then Mascha countered by explaining that about 75% of the fine-water experience is mouthfeel--basically, how many bubbles there are and how big they are. Some 20% comes from how dense the liquid is with minerals such as calcium and magnesium--which, to my shock, is listed on the side of most bottles as the TDS: total dissolved solids. The remaining 5%, Mascha claimed, comes down to pH balance: slightly alkaline waters taste sweet; acidic ones have a tinge of sourness...
...said.DINING WITH DREWLike Knowles—who served on the board of Corning, Inc. until early this year—Smith has strong ties to private industry. Before teaching, he worked for three years at Honeywell Information Systems, a division of Honeywell International. In 2001, he founded Liquid Machines, which sells digital rights management software to major corporations. The company’s clients include Corning, which was chaired by Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 until April of this year.Smith will step down as the chief scientist and chairman of Liquid Machines but will...
Even tougher is the one perplexing area in which the fight against global warming conflicts with the U.S.'s goal of greater energy independence: coal. "The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal," Dingell recently declared. We have seemingly endless tons of the stuff, which can be converted into liquid fuel for cars. Coal boosters are pushing legislation through Congress to subsidize the use of coal instead of oil. The only problem: coal is the dirtiest source of greenhouse gases. Representative Rick Boucher, from Virginia's mining country, chairs the subcommittee on energy, but coal's influence goes further than...
...away with the existing CAFE system for measuring fuel efficiency and replace it with a system that measures tailpipe emissions. After all, a car that runs 25 miles on a gallon of clean biodiesel might be preferable environmentally to a car that runs 35 miles on gasoline or liquid coal...