Word: perring
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...Using so much water per flush unnecessarily increases the volume of our waste and the cost of its transportation and treatment, ecologists say. If you don't put waste in water in the first place, then you don't have to spend money to remove it at the back end. The process also leaves a huge carbon footprint, says Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters. In the UK, she says, "the sewage system uses as much energy as what the largest coal fire station in the [country] produces" - about...
...trapped for reuse. In the French city of Lille, a small fleet of ten buses are also using methane, gleaned from the city's poop. And in some Indian villages, simple latrines have been built that separate waste and use it to produce compost and fertilizer at a per capita cost infinitesimally lower than any waste management budget in the West...
...stand today, stocks must drop quite a bit more before they reach this historical nadir. How far? Based on 2008 corporate-earnings estimates, the average P/E for the S&P 500 index is currently about 17. Factor in earnings estimates for 2009 - S&P analysts are forecasting average per-share earnings will be $48.52 next year, down from about $55 in 2008 - and stocks would have to drop at least another 30% before they would start to approach the lows of fierce bear markets of the past...
...year, people like Lepik, who had grown accustomed to making 50% a year on their real estate investments, suddenly struggled to sell. As the banks that helped finance the boom clamped down on credit, dozens of companies went bust. Land on the outskirts of Tallinn that had cost $0.50 per square meter in 2000, and peaked at $90 per square meter in 2006, now fetches just...
...this important? Two words: Jordan Culbreath. Princeton’s junior running back averages 5.6 yards per carry, better than Yale’s Mike McLeod even before he was average and better than Clifton Dawson ’07’s best season...