Word: plantes
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...Both are memories now, and in recent years the area had fallen on the hard times familiar to blue-collar communities across the U.S. But Grays Harbor is showing new color, thanks in part to the Seattle biofuel company Imperium Renewables, which just opened the nation's largest biodiesel plant there. The four-month-old refinery positively gleams (and smells vaguely like lawn clippings because of the vegetable oil used to make the biodiesel). As he scales a 500,000-gallon (1.9 million L) holding tank, plant manager Sid Watts can't conceal his pride. He points to the dock...
...Robert Plant and Alison Krauss See Reba, except this T-Bone Burnett-produced trifle wasn't just deserving of praise, it featured 20-time Grammy winner Alison Krauss, the sweet-voiced crack of the Grammy committee. Its absence from the glamour categories is mystifying...
...with the same basic material: uranium. In both civilian and military nuclear programs, mined uranium is converted into a gas and then enriched in centrifuges to increase the proportion of U-235--the uranium atoms that start and continue a nuclear chain reaction. Uranium that feeds a power plant needs only 3% enrichment, but a nuclear warhead requires at least 90% enrichment, and more centrifuges. The difference is so significant that international inspectors would probably detect the enrichment change unless Iran chose to enrich its uranium covertly, slowing the process. A country with civilian nuclear plants could choose to reprocess...
...film Roger & Me, Michael Moore made General Motors CEO Roger Smith famous by unsuccessfully hounding him to account for plant closings and layoffs, part of the old-line leader's attempts to revitalize the auto giant during an era defined by a growing threat from Japanese cars. Smith was hailed by loyalists as a modernizer, but his massive downsizing and other efforts, including launching the Saturn division, failed in the end, and GM, which in the early '80s dominated the U.S. market at 46%, held just 35% by 1990. Smith...
...shipped as part of a USAID-funded Alternative Livelihoods program. The idea, explains Loren Stoddard, head of USAID's Alternative Development and Agriculture program in Afghanistan, is to restore "some of the old trade routes that were broken." Since the Taliban regime fell six years ago, USAID has helped plant more than a million pomegranate trees, Stoddard claims, and this year Afghan farmers harvested between 33,000 and 44,000 tons (30,000 and 40,000 metric tons) of the fruit, of which some 1,102 tons (1,000 metric tons) were flown or trucked out. Most of it went...