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...grass. And no, not photographs of grass, but a photographic process using grass as a sort of photo paper. Ackroyd and Harvey have created a method in which the photosynthesis of grass is used to make an image. The artists plant grass in clay screens and expose the grass to an image as it grows. Depending on the amount of light different areas receive the blades will develop different pigmentation. Less light turns the grass to a white or yellow; more light means more different intensities of green...
...agenda is understandable: too much dire talk and people may desert the economy and lose interest in and support for the military campaign. "Some might ask why, in the midst of war, I would come to Dixie Printing," Bush said during a visit to a Maryland box-making plant on Wednesday. "And the answer is because we fight the war on two fronts. We fight a war at home, and part of the war we fight is to make sure that our economy continues to grow...
...obligation to act as guardians of the land and its water, which Naseyowna calls "the blood of the earth." The dispute has heated up in recent months as concern over the springs and wells has grown--and as deadlines approach for key negotiations between Peabody and the Mohave power plant...
Peabody's fuel-supply contract with the Mohave Generating Station ends in 2005. But the power plant is required to start installing scrubbers on its smokestacks before then, and its executives do not want to spend $400 million on that project unless the Hopi water problem is resolved. Either Washington gives Peabody permission to pump aquifer water for the life of the mine, which could be an additional 15 years, or an alternative water source must be found for the slurry pipeline. "We have to decide by next year," says Nader Mansour, manager for environmental regulations for Southern California Edison...
...just ship the coal by rail to the Mohave power plant--the same way Peabody already ships coal from Black Mesa to a power plant near Lake Powell? There is no direct rail line to the Mohave plant, and the cost of building one, says Peabody's Palmer, "would be prohibitive...