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...after Germany's surrender. Gerstein was in charge of delivering poisonous gas to the death camps, and faced punishment for war crimes. Other works surfaced only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of Delacroix's own favorites, Portrait of a Young Man, in which he portrays a pale aesthete wearing a blue cap, was found after a former German soldier on his deathbed confessed to his priest that he possessed the missing painting. The priest informed the French embassy in Berlin, which secured the painting's return to France...
...piezoelectrics pale next to the biggest opportunity to scavenge energy: heat. The thermoelectric effect--temperature differences between two ends of a circuit can be converted directly to voltage--allows us to recover some of that lost energy. For years the technology was too costly to be widely used outside extreme examples like the space program, but new companies like the California-based Thermo Life can produce energy from relatively small temperature differentials. Right now it's used mostly to power rechargeable batteries in wireless devices, but as the technology improves, it could begin to harness the vast amount of energy...
...Britain's throne says he doesn't like his own country that much. Yet look at the pictures of the prince on active service, and it's easy to see why Harry might prefer his hard army billet to the comforts of a palace bed. Dressed in camouflage, his pale skin burned as ruddy as his hair, the prince for the first time in his life was almost invisible, blending into the bleak desert landscape with its rich palette of colors - any shade, as long as it's dusty red. To the watching enemy - he calls them "Terry Taliban...
With the harsh light of a local TV camera crew shining in his pale blue eyes, Governor Ted Strickland planted his black wingtips hip width apart and shouted Hillary Clinton's campaign message of the day: This primary fight will continue. Get used...
...basketball coach Tommy Amaker has raised red flags over the potential bending of recruiting rules and admissions standards. And so, President Faust, in your input toward selecting Orleans’s successor, we urge you to opt not for a candidate seeking to transform the Ivy League into some pale imitation of the Big Ten. We urge you, rather, to support an candidate who respects the role of athletics in the context of the greater college experience. While we take pride in the accomplishments of our classmates on the field...