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...course, just that. Congress's idea of a synthetic-fuel industry is unlike any other business model: it doesn't make a profit and never will. The cost of treating the coal makes synfuel more expensive than conventional coal. Thus this new generation of synfuel plants makes no economic sense. Their only allure is the tax credit. To be sure, those who benefit from the tax credit dispute the notion that it is a windfall. They claim that it has increased the supply of low-cost coal, lowered electricity prices, improved the efficiency of coal-fired generators and been environmentally...
...skittish citizens who aren't frightened enough by disaster reports on cable news, police scanners or the Web, RCA introduces Alert Guard. The early-warning system, built into four new RCA TV models, gathers data from government watchdogs like the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, finds events that threaten your neighborhood and displays alerts right on the screen. When something is brewing, whether it's an approaching tsunami or a mishap at a nuclear-power plant, the TV translates government-issued radio codes into text messages, audio alarms and colored warning lights (green, yellow...
...commerce than an attempt to participate in it. And when they started making clothes, it was to attract attention rather than sales. In 1998 they launched the Atomic Bomb collection, featuring shirts stuffed with helium balloons to mimic a mushroom cloud. After that came the Babushka collection, a single model wearing nine layers of beaded clothing. "We decided we were too much picked up by the art world, so we did couture," says Horsting. "It was a good way to get our name out," says Snoeren. The fashion press began to take notice, as did Franco Pene, head...
...Barnes & Noble from work to catch urban fiction novelist Candace Bushnell, who also wrote the Sex in the City novel, discussing her latest work Trading Up—a book about a distressed Victoria’s Secret model searching for love in her Manolo Blahnik heels. Upon asking a clerk about The Nanny Diaries in an attempt to flaunt my knowledge about the genre, I was told that since the book was two years older, it had been relegated to the standard fiction department. Apparently urban fiction goes in and out of style as fast as designer couture...
...time at the Graduate School of Design Sert would create an interdisciplinary program to combine cultural and aesthetic concerns with politics and civil engineering. He would also use his own practice—projects he did for the governments of Cuba, Colombia and Brazil—to provide a model for an emerging field. Professionally and pedagogically, Sert was in the right place at the right time...