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...supposes that his own intelligence might make him a weaker candidate. “[A]s [State Rep. Timothy J.] Toomey is almost certainly less intelligent than I am,” Slavitt speculates, “he has the advantage, because his mind is much less likely than mine to skitter off in all directions...
...underground storage site. It hopes to start building full-scale carbon-free plants around 2015 to 2020. In Britain, Powerfuel's Budge expects to break ground early next year on a $1.5 billion, 900-MW plant in South Yorkshire. It's adjacent to the Hatfield Colliery, a shuttered coal mine Powerfuel is now reopening. The plant will use igcc technology, and Powerfuel - now majority-owned by Russia's Kuzbassrazrezugol - expects to pipe the carbon into North Sea?oil reservoirs, where it can help flush out additional oil reserves. Several other carbon-capture ready projects have been proposed. E.ON, for instance...
...ttingen and have the dubious pleasure of personally hearing him lecture. Then, after signing his name, Hilbert felt compelled to add what must surely have been a tantalizing and disconcerting postscript. "As far as I understand your new paper, the solution given by you is entirely different from mine...
After seven years in rowing shells waiting attentively for the coach’s directions, you would think it easy to formulate commands of my own. You would be mistaken. Like all first efforts, mine at giving instructions were awkward. “Alright guys, we want to keep the shoulders quiet and steady, and change directions from the hips. Understand what I’m saying?” Those words, in my head so sensible and accurate, were initially met with bemused looks and, a little later, with unenthusiastic action...
...knowledge of mine suitable for transmission to the next crop of collegiate oarsmen and coxswains comes not from intrinsic ability or personal brilliance. Rather, it springs from seven years of making myriad mistakes and, only very occasionally, learning from them...