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That's debatable, to say the least. There's no question that a nuclear plant, once it's up and running, produces comparatively little carbon dioxide - a British government report last year found that a nuclear plant emits just 2% to 6% of the CO2 per kilowatt-hour as natural gas, the cleanest fossil fuel - but nuclear energy still seems like the power of yesterday. After a burst of construction between the 1950s and late 1970s, a new nuclear power plant hasn't come on line in the U.S. since 1996, and some nations like Germany are looking to phase...
...knew for certain that they had actually killed a member of the enemy in return. That imbalance between seeing the price of war up close and yet not feeling able to do much about it, the survey suggests, contributes to feelings of "intense fear, helplessness or horror" that plant the seeds of mental distress. "A friend was liquefied in the driver's position on a tank, and I saw everything," was a typical comment. Another: "A huge f______ bomb blew my friend's head off like 50 meters from me." Such indelible scenes - and wondering when and where the next...
...President, the first such effort quickly sold out all 3,200 tickets at $25 a head - and produced the beginning of a local organization. "It's the difference between hunting and farming," says Obama moneyman Matthew Barzun, 37, the Louisville Internet-publishing entrepreneur who arranged the event. "You plant a seed, and you get much more...
...This new genus will provide better opportunities for research on plant morphology than the standard “model system” flower, the Arabidopsis, which Kramer calls “very boring” in this regard...
...teaches Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 52: “Biology of Plants” with Noel Michele Holbrook and Jacques Dumais, where the students often participate in field trips and “eat in every lecture,” she said. She also leads an undergraduate class on plant differentiation and two graduate courses...