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...planting sweet sorghum, a kind of grass that can be harvested by locals and sold for biofuel production. The plan dovetails with Beijing's ambitious goal of generating 2 million tons of bio-ethanol a year by 2010, and 15% of its energy from renewable resources by 2020. (Seventy percent of mainland China's energy comes from coal today.) In another desert village, drought-resistant shrubs called sand willows are being planted to keep encroaching sands at bay, but there are also plans to start processing them in a biomass thermal power plant, which will burn the willows to generate...
...cited the program’s high retention rate, 90 percent, as an indication of its success...
...similarly to the Holy Cross game two weeks ago. Lehigh is less explosive offensively, but should play slightly stiffer 'D.' The Mountain Hawks rely on savvy veteran quarterback Sedale Threatt to engineer the offense. Threatt is running less than in years past, and has completed only 54 percent of his passes this season, but still ranks second in the conference (behind Crusaders QB Dominic Randolph) in total offense. And he’s a gamer. The Hawks are not a quality running team, so the onus will once again fall on the Harvard secondary and pass rush. The unit picked...
...talk about young, black men with frequency. At any rate, to say race is irrelevant to the Vick scandal is silly—the fact of the matter is that black people and white people saw it differently, and that means something. A Pew Research Center poll had 51 percent of African Americans saying the coverage of Vick was unfair in contrast to only 12 percent of whites. A New York Times/CBS News poll also showed similarly large disparities...
...summer blockbuster phenomenon isn’t limited to the movie house. More people visited museums in England in 2005 than went to football matches, and according to the U.K. Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, museum attendance is consistently highest in July and August, rising nearly 25 percent higher than the preceding months. Summer tourism naturally accounts for part of the phenomenon, but local residents also have time off, and therefore the leisure to visit museums. The ones I visited this summer seemed well prepared to cater to this special audience. In Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie—housed...