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...hope it will be, you may one day be able to sit in a village in Nepal and look up every book in the Library of Congress! Think about the implications of that: the knowledge of all times may one day be accessible from every spot on this planet. That's one of the most democratic things I can think...
...last summer, when blackouts struck much of the northeastern U.S., Ontario and Rome, consumers on two continents were given a painful reminder of just how fragile electricity supplies can be. The massive disruptions stranded commuters, defrosted freezers, shut down businesses and refocused attention on where most of the planet's power comes from: oil-and gas-fired generators and nuclear plants. These sources are not only plagued by creaky infrastructures, but they also pollute the environment and, many consumers feel, pose unacceptable health risks. Entrepreneurs like Lifton are trying to offer an alternative: clean energy from renewable resources that...
...ABANDONED. NOZOMI, a Mars probe that was Japan's first interplanetary mission, after scientists determined it wouldn't be able to properly orbit the red planet because of an electrical failure. The craft, whose name means hope in Japanese, will be steered away from Mars to prevent it from crashing into the planet...
...alas, the man is a mortal—and he wasn’t a particularly good president, either. For astronomically inflating the deficit and absentmindedly posing for photo ops while the “evil empire” went under on the other side of the planet, Reagan’s moniker has already been slapped on an aircraft carrier, a federal building—hell! even our nation’s capital has an airport in his name...
...means, we have the technology, the science and the opportunity and desperately the need to make a better set of arrangements around the world,” he said. “The millennium could be an opportunity for a break through of the quality of life on the planet and a chance for the poor to escape lives of hunger and impoverishment...