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...year-old freeze on building new nuclear plants; Rome aims to use nuclear power to help reduce foreign-energy imports, and cut costs by 30% in the coming years. Belgium and Sweden are considering revising laws to extend the life of existing reactors, and to open the door to newer nuclear technology. Britain plans at least four new nuclear reactors, while Japan has two new plants under construction to add to its existing stable of 53. Even the oil-rich Middle East has taken its first step toward nukes: Abu Dhabi hopes to begin work soon on the first...
...shed more light on the cause of Shanidar 3's death, the reasons for his species' fate remain a mystery. Some scientists believe that Neanderthals went extinct after a particularly volatile period of climate change shrank their arboreal hunting grounds. Others suggest they may have interbred with humans. A newer theory focuses on a violent end at the hands of Homo sapiens. Earlier this year, Fernando Rozzi, an anthropologist at Paris's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, found a Neanderthal jawbone that had been butchered in precisely the same way that humans cut up deer carcasses in the early...
...spends so much time covering. The category's core advertisers - financial services, automotive and business-to-consumer types - have borne the brunt of the recession. And all advertisers now have many more outlets in which to spread their spending. More magazines are covering business, and there are dozens of newer, cheaper digital players on the block...
...gallon, Kaufmann was laughing at his neighbors' wallet-withering $100 fuel bills for their SUVs, while he toddled about in his sporty Zenn, a low-speed neighborhood electric vehicle, or NEV, for next to nothing. Though NEVs can't legally go over 25 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone, newer high-speed sedans, like the ones Nissan and Tesla will be launching, are highway-approved, crash-tested and able to hit 80 m.p.h. in seconds flat. (See the top 10 everything...
...hard is it to manage and maintain these trade boosters? Ed Collom, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern Maine, has studied volunteer-run programs like Ithaca's and found that about 80% failed, chiefly because of administrative burnout. That's why many newer models, like BerkShares, are now set up as nonprofits, complete with administrative support...