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Easy, right? Well, one part is, yes. Salt-splitting involves old technology--used in manufacturing chlorine--and is done simply by running an electric current through a pure brine solution, causing the positive sodium and negative chloride ions to head toward opposite poles. The technique does not yet work on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mopping Up the CO2 Deluge | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

For France, dismissal wasn't particularly unjust, just brutal. In its third game, against Italy on June 17, France lost its talisman Franck Ribéry to injury barely 10 minutes in, then lost defender Eric Abidal to a red card 15 minutes later for hacking Luca Toni in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euro 2008: The Energy and the Agony | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

The fence is not likely to win any architecture awards. It's a hodgepodge of designs. The best--sections of tall, concrete-filled steel poles deeply rooted, closely spaced and solidly linked at the top--are bluntly functional. The worst--rusting, graffiti-covered, Vietnam-era surplus--are just skeevy walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

Over in Austria, there was a bit of excitement when Polish and German fans exchanged the usual pregame punches, but this is no England-Germany, and once the proceedings started in the Worthersee Stadion in Klagenfurt, the Germans got down to business. And they were all business. Poland had a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Blood Drawn at Euro2008 | 6/11/2008 | See Source »

The College, however, does little to prepare students for this charge. While the current core’s QR requirement boast classes such as QR50: Medical Detectives and QR46: The Visual Display of Numbers, no class teaches a range of foundational topics—from statistical reasoning to model building?...

Author: By Ramya Parthasarathy | Title: The Magic of Numbers | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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