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Translation: Because natural-gas prices are going up--and are going to stay up--it's now time to bring in more expensive LNG from the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and possibly Russia. To import natural gas, it must be chilled to minus 260°F, which converts it to a liquid and reduces its volume. An amount that would normally fill a beach ball can fit inside a Ping-Pong ball. When the liquid arrives at terminals in the U.S., it is slowly warmed up, returned to a vapor form and sent through pipelines...
...caught the electricity bug in his 40s, "electrick fire" was a playful if puzzling entertainment. His experiments led him to startlingly modern conclusions. The "fire," he said, is a single "fluid," not the dual "vitreous" and "resinous" electricities postulated by European savants. It exists in two states: plus and minus (terms he coined, along with positive and negative, battery and conductor). Furthermore, he said, if there is an excess of charge in one conductor, it must be precisely balanced, as in double-entry bookkeeping, by a deficit in another. Stated another way, electrical charge is always conserved, an important...
Over the next three hours, "Barbara," minus her burqa, dispensed lists of comparisons between Jesus and Muhammad ("Jesus arose from the dead and is alive. Muhammad is dead.") and of dos and don'ts of ministering to Muslims. (Do listen to their story. Don't argue about Israel.) She projected a statement by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on a screen: "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you." After his comment was publicized in late...
...floating fortresses with eyeballs for windows. Of course, it's not really like that--but it's getting there. Second Life secondlife.com is a 3-D online world where you can do whatever you want, build whatever you want and be whoever you want. It's the Matrix minus the evil machines. Unlike other online worlds, such as the Sims Online, Second Life isn't a game you win or lose. The only rules are the rules of physics--and even they can be bent. (There's also a full working economy, so the laws of the marketplace apply.) Some...
...previous games against elite competition, Peljto (21.3 ppg, 9.8 rpg) had been the only player to maintain high production on offense, which became painfully apparent in Harvard’s 79-40 loss to Rutgers on Dec. 21 when the Crimson, minus Peljto due to a sprained MCL, managed to score only seven points in the first half. Against the Wildcats, however, both Cserny and junior point guard Bev Moore broke into double-digits in points in addition to establishing a surprising level on dominance on the floor...