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...sustainable, including a stipulation that it represent a 35% carbon saving compared to oil. Fischer Boel sets much store on the shift from first wave of biofuels (made from wheat, maize, colza, sugar beet etc) to second generation (leaves, straw and pond algae). If she's right, it could maintain the initial promise of biofuels. But as the chorus of critics grows louder, Europe's ambitious goals for filling its tanks with the fruits of the fields are looking more and more like pipedreams...
...Meanwhile, proposals to fence off Tasmanian peninsulas and establish devil colonies on nearby islands are about to be revisited, though some ecologists oppose using islands because of the damage an experienced new predator could do. Cordoning off peninsulas would also be expensive to maintain and hard to patrol. "Fencing out a disease is much harder than fencing out a predator," says Hamish McCallum. But like others, he worries about relying on captive devils, which will inevitably lose some wild traits: "I wouldn't want all my eggs in that basket...
...Belgrade's decision to hold elections in Kosovo is part of a broader effort by Serbia and Kosovo's Serb minority, which makes up about 10% of the population, to maintain control over the breakaway state. The defiant phrase KOSOVO IS SERBIA! has cropped up all over the place, from a tennis tournament in California (where a banner bearing those words was confiscated from Serbian fans) to the European swimming championships in the Netherlands - where a Serbian medalist was suspended for wearing the slogan on his T shirt. Hard-line nationalists in Belgrade who continue to reject Kosovo...
...least some direct contact with the world outside her prison, both because she was abducted as a 10-year-old and because she was periodically allowed out during her captivity; the Fritzls were kept imprisoned without reprieve. "Time went by very slowly [in the cellar], and we want to maintain this slow pace for them," says Dr. Berthold Kepplinger, the director of the Amstetten clinic where the family is being treated...
...question about veteran status during all of the Alliance’s intake interviews, not only for those in psychiatric care. Despite CHA’s financial woes, staff members insist that the quality of veterans’ care will not be negatively affected. “We will maintain the highest standard in terms of the care that is provided to our patients,” said special assistant to the CHA’s chief executive officer Michael L. Buckley. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...