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...space and a lot of mirrors - and NS1 has all of the above. 182,000 parabolic mirrors are spread over 400 acres of flat desert, creating a glistening sea of glass visible from miles away. Up close they're shaped like shallow satellite dishes, chasing the sun's movement as it passes through the sky. On the cloudy day I visited, the plant was running at less than full capacity, and some of the mirrors were turned downwards to block the force of the wind, which had the glass vibrating. Although the plant might look like fragile...
...independent streak goes way back, and it's never gone away," says Thomas Naylor, a former Duke economics professor who now leads the state's fledgling secession movement. In that statewide poll, three of every four Vermonters agreed that the United States had lost its moral authority. "That's really something," Naylor says...
...heaven, home of Ben and Jerry and Phish, the first state with civil unions for gays, the last state with a Wal-Mart and the only state that President Bush has somehow neglected to visit. (Naylor likes to say that Bush is the unofficial membership director for his secession movement.) One Vermont Senator, Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders, is an avowed socialist; the other, Pat Leahy, is a liberal Democrat perhaps best known for being told by the Vice President on the Senate floor to go "f--k yourself." When Manhattan-born Howard Dean served as governor, he was considered pretty...
...culturally aware, can speak the language and have what it takes to operate in a given country," Giron says. For example, in 2005, CARE responded to the earthquake in Pakistan with a team from neighboring countries that was able to operate in a place that restricted the movement of women. But nearly two years ago, it did not have the same resources when its teams assessed a possible response to malnutrition in refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaďre. "We weren't already based in the country, so it was hard...
...Galison’s research on the H-bomb, which was built clandestinely, sparked his general interest in governmental secrecy. “I began to wonder, when people censor documents and things they’ve said, what do they understand as being necessary to stop the movement of knowledge around the world?” he says.Galison and Moss met at Harvard, where they began teaching a class together, History of Science 152: “Filming Science,” in which students create short films on scientific and technological processes. “It turns...