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...wind generators in the world and plans to use renewables for as much as 15% of its new power over the next decade. So far, most of India's estimated $100 million annual spending on renewable-energy plants is going to Indian companies or firms such as Denmark's NEG Micon, which in 2000 had 9.1% of India's wind market--more than four times the share of the U.S. firm Enron. Says Dale Vince, managing director of Next Generation, which erected a large wind turbine for Britain's Sainsbury's grocery chain: "The export market will be colossal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling the Sun...and the Wind | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...piece of sugarcane. Her daughter Melina, 6, places the gourd on her head and begins a morning-long walk to a well. Mercius, meanwhile, picks up his wooden hoe, balances it on his shoulder and scuttles down the mountainside to till a field of millet for a gros neg, a landowning peasant. If he is lucky, he will earn 60 cents for his day's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti In the Land Where Hope Never Grows | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...quickly established chapters in Hartford, New York, Portland, and Taunton, Mass. Pretty soon there were a million members all over the country--buying magazines (Sample want ad: "Pictures needed of cabooses seen from the side."), swapping photographs (Advertised Mr. G. A. Porter of Savannah, Ga.: "8 X 10 neg. of A-AWP supplement to emp. tt. governing train carrying body of Jefferson Davis from New Orleans to Richmond, May 29, 1893. 10 cents each. Timetable fans and Confederate collectors write."), and attending mass meetings to hear reports from local railroad vice-presidents...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: The Crimson Goes on a Steam Safari | 4/26/1956 | See Source »

...Harvard Union will hold a debate this evening on the subject of the Princeton Debate. Resolved: That, assuming the adoption of adequate constitutional amendment, the United States should institute a system of responsible cabinet government. The principal disputants will be" Aff. B. H. Hayes, '98 and Hermann Robinson, '98. Neg. N. B. Marshall, L. S. and A. M. Kales, L. S. Many other prominent members will speak from the floor, and an interesting debate is expected, on account of the prominence of the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Princeton Debate. | 11/6/1896 | See Source »

...following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Aff., Merriam, L. S., Hesseltine, '88, Neg., O. B. Judson, '90, Balch, '90, Drew, '89, F. M. Brown, '88, Shaughnessy, L. S., Mahany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate. | 5/11/1887 | See Source »

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