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After a pilot project last year proved a big hit with the public, Dörentrup council has decided to roll out the scheme for the entire village (pop. 9,000). Utility company Lemgo estimates it will cut Dörentrup's carbon emissions by some 12 tons each year compared with leaving the streetlights on all night. "We found out that on each stretch of road, people only switch on the lights up to three times each night," explains Frank Bräuer, project leader at Lemgo. "That's why this system works in villages or on the outskirts...
...turns out he's Ric O'Barry, a forgotten face from 1960s pop culture. As a young man, he captured and trained Flipper--or rather, the five dolphins that played that beloved cetacean. He became a passionate opponent of keeping dolphins in captivity after the death of one of the Flippers, a bottlenose named Kathy. Now he's a crusader on a mission: In a small, isolated cove in Taiji, Japan, where O'Barry has become a part-time resident (and pest), thousands of dolphins are being trapped and slaughtered every year. Since 2003, O'Barry has been desperately trying...
...advantage of being in Amritsar is that almost everyone in the business-oriented town is a merchant. Furthermore, the cash-and-carry format allows Bharti and Walmart to co-opt a part of the competition - the mom-and-pop, or kiryana, stores - by turning them into customers. In fact, there's a section within the Best Price store called a "model store," where kiryana shop owners are taught how to arrange goods in their store and optimize inventories to maximize profits...
...impossible to say whether the Stasi's fears of Michael Jackson were justified. But two decades later, Checkpoint Charlie is a museum, the Wall all but gone, and Berlin Mitte, the city center, has been returned to shopkeepers, restaurants and offices. Maybe the power of pop had something to do with...
...Nuclear World On paper, at least, Areva is perfectly positioned for the nascent boom. In addition to the 47 new plants under construction worldwide, there are 133 planned for the next decade. Industry analysts predict a further 200 new reactors between now and 2050. At around $7 billion a pop, the payday for the biggest players - Areva, Russia's Rosatom, Toshiba-owned Westinghouse, Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems and a joint venture between General Electric and Hitachi - promises to be huge as countries around the world turn to alternatives to coal and oil to meet rising demand for clean electricity...