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...within three to five years the gas will be gone. Meanwhile, a growing economy is gobbling up power - 2.5% more of it each year - and making the national grid feel its age. Power lines into Auckland, where almost one-third of New Zealanders now live, can barely handle peak loads. At a national electricity summit two weeks ago, industry leaders warned that if action isn't taken soon, supplies could run short or the grid give way within five years. "We don't have much reserve margin," says Alex Sundakov, of energy consultancy Castalia. "We are flying by the seat...
...defense, far from peak performance, was more compact than the night before, but junior goaltender Ali Boe lost the shutout bid on an unassisted power-play goal by Christine Bailkowski early in the final period...
...struggles in the beginning of the season were so great,” Corriero said. “We’re so much more weathered. We’re not afraid to lose. Now we’ve got this momentum and we’re starting to peak at the time we need to peak...
Among the girls in Giedd's study, brain size peaks around age 111/2. For the boys, the peak comes three years later. "For kids, that's a long time," Giedd says. His research shows that most parts of the brain mature faster in girls. But in a 1999 study of 508 boys and girls, Virginia Tech researcher Harriet Hanlon found that some areas mature faster in boys. Specifically, some of the regions involved in mechanical reasoning, visual targeting and spatial reasoning appeared to mature four to eight years earlier in boys. The parts that handle verbal fluency, handwriting and recognizing...
...then known as the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, later to become the San Francisco Art Institute. Over the course of 20 years Kiyama studied traditional western art, becoming a painter of some note. He also took to cartooning, undoubtedly inspired by American newspaper comics, which were reaching the peak of their golden era at the time. In a style seemingly inspired by the likes of George McManus' "Bringing Up Father" and Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie," Kiyama created 52 episodes for a projected weekly series to be printed in one of the city's Japanese language newspapers. While...