Word: roofs
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That prospect is stirring excitement around the globe. In Japan, housing companies have introduced a type of dwelling with silicon roof tiles that generate enough electricity to meet most of a family's needs. Spurred by government incentives, construction of some 70,000 of these houses is expected in the next several years. In Switzerland and Germany, dozens of office buildings have been built with solar cells integrated into the glass of southfacing walls, allowing the windows to produce power while transmitting filtered sunlight...
...travel to the Alaskan North Slope or the shores of the Caspian Sea to find new sources. The sunlight falling on the surface of the earth each day contains 6,000 times as much energy as is used by all countries combined. Studies show that covering the existing flat-roof space of many cities with solar cells could meet half to three-quarters of their electricity needs. In the U.S., North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas together are swept by sufficient wind to meet the electricity needs of the entire country...
...That didn't stop South Korean stocks from going through the roof Monday. Seoul's Korea Composite Stock Price index racked up its largest single-day percentage gain, jumping 25.98 points, or about 7 percent, to close at 385.80. Rallies on Saturday (yes, this is a market that trades on Saturday) and Monday more than undid Friday's plunge, when the Composite sank 7 percent to a 10-year low. What caused the turnaround? The catalyst seems to have been a series of statements over the weekend by South Korean leaders, who vowed to "fully implement the agreement reached with...
Korea Resurgent? Seoul may be pleading for accelerated bailout aid, but the Korean market sent a different message Monday as it shot through the roof...
...books were damaged when a leak in the roof of the Child Memorial Library, the English Department reading room on the third floor of Widener Library, went undiscovered during the weekend storm...