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...David Jones, Shell's former head of wind energy. The company estimates it will have about $600 million invested in renewable-energy infrastructure projects over the next five years--notably in wind-turbine hardware. "We have identified renewable energy as an absolute growth market," says Thomas P??tter, chief executive of Allianz. He points to China's embrace of wind power. The government has wind-mapped the entire country and is committed to building the world's largest wind-power farm, with an eventual output of 200 gigawatts...
...sometime in the next few weeks, a team led by molecular geneticist Svante P??bo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, will announce an even more stunning achievement: the sequencing of a significant fraction of the genome of Neanderthals--the human-like species we picture when we hear the word caveman--who are far closer to us genetically than chimps are. And though Neanderthals became extinct tens of thousands of years ago, P??bo is convinced he's on the way to reconstructing the entire genome of that long-lost relative, using...
...Amanda—played with deft adorability by Jacinda Barrett (“The Last Kiss”)—Roger signs up for the class. When he shows up to the classroom there are about 20 other neurotic and emasculated guys cowering at the sight of Dr. P??s lineback-like assistant, Lesher (Michael Clark Duncan, “Talladega Nights”). Then Thornton emerges, like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield on Red Bull, relentlessly mocking these wusses and instilling in them pseudo-macho wisdom about landing hot chicks. His favorite pearl...
...California”? The first time you’ll laugh; the second time you’ll philosophize.The DJ here shows a gift for reducing songs to only the most necessary elements, as when field-stripping The Rentals’ “Friends of P?? from a three and a half minute slice of mid-90’s nostalgia rock to half-second moment of heavenly clarity. While at times it seems that the goal is to make the most shocking, rather than best-sounding, juxtaposition, there’s enough of merit going...
...League remains the only Division I conference without a championship tournament format, and that won’t change any time soon. That’s bad news for the Crimson and the other five Ivy programs not named the Quakers or the Tigers; the killer P??s of Princeton and Penn have won an astounding 45 of the last 51 Ivy basketball titles...