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...minerals like that,” he said. “You can just do the opposite. Instead of adding a base, remove acid.” However, even if the researchers’ proposals were to be implemented, it would only rid the atmosphere of about one-seventh of its carbon, according to the researchers. “This cannot solve the whole problem. It’s not like we can go out and start buying Hummers,” said study co-author and materials science professor Michael J. Aziz. Rather, House suggests a comprehensive plan that...
...company and its performance, alleging that Blackwater employees had shot innocent Iraqis and had paid off one victim's family to appease State Department officials who had wanted to put the "unfortunate matter" behind them. The 15-page report said the firm's staff has been involved in at least 195 shooting incidents since 2005, firing the first shot more than 80% of the time. It added that, over the same time period, Blackwater has dismissed 122 employees, about one-seventh of its workforce in Iraq, claiming drug or alcohol use, violent conduct, misuse of weapons, and other untoward behavior...
...first bright green and white LEDs. An LED is a semiconductor that generates light, but very little heat, when an electric current is passed through it. Different semiconductor materials produce different colors; Nakamura used gallium nitride, which generates blue and white light. The resulting LEDs use as little as one-seventh the energy as an incandescent bulb and can last about 100 times as long, up to 100,000 hours. If they were widely used, LEDs could lead to enormous energy savings and carbon-emissions reductions. In the developing world, LEDs paired with solar panels could provide a cheap, sustainable...
...Horn of Africa and in parts of Southern Africa. Earlier this month James Morris, the head of the United Nations World Food Program (wfp), warned that more funding for food aid was needed in Sudan or peace II there could unravel. Oxfam complained in May that less than one-seventh of the funds the United Nations and aid groups need for Congo had been given. As the G-8 leaders prepare to gather again, skeptics are asking if their resolutions really matter on the ground. No deal, however substantial, could reasonably have been expected to solve the problems of Africa...
...there are 1 million to 2 million. At the same time, the state's human population has exploded. As a result, development is pushing into wetlands that were once pure, alligator-friendly wilderness, and agriculture is draining huge swaths of alligator habitat. Everglades National Park is just one-seventh the size of the historic Everglades swampland, forcing the animals to share territory that humans consider their...